[f. VARY v.]
† 1. Hist. = PREVARICATOR 4. Obs.
1614. [see PREVARICATOR 4].
1665. Buck, in Peacock, Stat. Cambr. (1841), App. B. p. lxxxii. The Proctor calleth up the Varier or Prævaricator, who, having ended his speech, is dismist by the Proctor.
2. One who varies or dissents from something.
1860. Tennyson, Sea Dreams, 19. They gain’d a coast … At close of day; slept, woke, and went the next, The Sabbath, pious variers from the church, To chapel.
