▪ I. preˈtexted, ppl. a.1
[f. pretext v. + -ed1.]
Put forward or used as a pretext; pretended.
| 1606 Ford Honor Tri. (1843) 25 Such these are, who..import the pretexted glosse of beauties name. 1864 Realm 23 Mar. 2 What the real truth is with regard to the pretexted Holy Alliances and retrograde policy of the Austrian Government. 1880 Cornh. Mag. Jan. 54 He called most of them by their Christian names on some pretexted fiction of cousinship. |
▪ II. pretexted, ppl. a.2
see after pretext a.