Anagrams of: PREVARICATED

• be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

• expressing entreaty or supplication

• a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war

• an animal that is confined

• a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion

• being in captivity

• giving or marked by complete attention to

• having a capacity for adaptation

• (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula

• one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements

• make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition

• affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of

• involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic

• an officer or crew member of a privateer

• a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation