To delay or postpone something; an archaic or dialect word meaning to hold back or put off.
From Latin 'cunctari' meaning 'to delay or hesitate.' This ancient root gave rise to various English terms related to procrastination and slowness throughout medieval and early modern periods.
This wonderfully obsolete verb is essentially the ancestor of our modern word 'reluctant'—both trace back to the same Latin root meaning 'to struggle against' or 'hold back.'
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