- v. Simple past tense and past participle of cavil. “And if
they cavil at it, as MPs have cavilled and continue to cavil at
the detection of their felonies, they may yet discover what the
whoosh of the guillotine blade sounds like.” “He cavilled in
part like the priest Sabellius, who had cavilled like the
Phrygian Praxeas, who was a great caviller.” “The Christians
sophisticated, cavilled, hated, and excommunicated one another,
for some of these dogmas inaccessible to human intellect, before
the time of Arius and Athanasius.” “I'd personally throw the
Schwinn over the fence of anyone who read that story and
cavilled about spelling.” “It may be a very difficult thing,
perhaps, for a man of the best sense to write a love-letter that
may not be cavilled at.” “However, their replication is no worse
than many similar multiproxies, which have not cavilled at
opining on MWP-modern relationships.” “Others make the word
refer to exceptions of impossible cases; the priests were to
perform all the duties possible to th