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▪ I. straying, vbl. n.|ˈstreɪɪŋ|
[f. stray v.2 + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb, in various senses; also, an instance of this.
1548Elyot's Dict., Erratio, a goyng out of the waie, a wandryng, a straiyng abrode, a rouyng. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. viii. 47 What els are the wais of the world but straiings, so as euery man gaddes in and out when they once turne their backes vpon God. 1632Sanderson Serm. Ad Aulam ii. (1681) 22 Those strayings also and outsteppings, whereof Gods faithfullest servants are now and then guilty. 1643Rous Ps. xlv. 18 (1646) 76 Our heart's not turn'd back, from thy way, our steps no straying made. 1786G. Frazer Dove's Flight 39 Observe the pidgeon in her straying from the flock. 1820Keats Isabella xviii, How could they find out in Lorenzo's eye A straying from his toil? a1857H. Bonar Hymns of Faith & Hope 33 Cease, my soul, thy strayings! 1876M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma 244 Those learned inquirers..who were so busy about the strayings of Ulysses, so inattentive to their own. 1889H. E. Handerson tr. Baas' Hist. Med. 495 note, Patin was the first who observed a case of tubal pregnancy, ascribing it to a straying of the ovum.
b. Gerundially in to go a-straying. Now only arch.
a1586Sidney Ps. xiv. 3 And loe, he findes that all a straying went. 1884Eng. Illustr. Mag. Dec. 152/2 Thoughts that had gone astraying half across the globe. 1936Auden Look, Stranger! 56 And Garbo's and Cleopatra's wits to go astraying.
▪ II. straying, ppl. a.|streɪɪŋ|
[f. stray v.2 + -ing2.]
That strays, in the senses of the verb. a. Of a person, animal, etc.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. xv. 99 Duryng these blind and straying peregrinations, they carry none other apparrell then a little cassock. 1593A. Chute Beautie Dishonoured (Budig 1908) 95 Neuer did flocke to old Vlisses Queene, In wearie absence of her straying knight, Neuer more woers [etc.]. 1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace xxviii. 475 The straying bullock needs a heavy clog. 1831M. W. Shelley Swiss Peasant Tales x. (1891) 189 Or a straying cow would lead him far into the depths of the stormy hills.
b. Of a thing. † straying star: a planet; cf. errant a. 9 b.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. ix. 42 b, The seuen straying starres. 1601Holland Pliny ii. xlv. I. 22 The straying starres or planets. 1612Two Noble K. i. v. 15 This world's a Citty full of straying Streetes, And Death's the market place, where each one meetes.
c. fig.
1553Short Catechism 7 b, Hearin is debarred al kind of filthy & strayeng lust. a1586Sidney Ps. i. 1 He blessed is who neither loosely treads The straying steps as wicked councel leads,..Nor yet [etc.]. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xli. 10 And chide thy beauty, and thy straying youth. 1690Norris Beatitudes (1692) 9 To reduce straying man to his true Good and Happiness. 1867G. Duff Notes fr. Diary 1851–1872 (1897) II. 78 He writes of these straying sheep without bigotry. |