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† vaˈgation Obs.
Also 4 vagacyone, 5–6 -cion, 6 -cyon, -tione.
[ad. L. vagātiōn-, vagātio, n. of action f. vagārī to wander. Cf. OF. vagation (Godef.), Pg. vagação.]
The action of wandering, straying, or departing from the proper or regular course; an instance or occasion of this; a wandering, rambling, roaming; an aberration. In lit. and fig. use.
c1340Hampole Prose Tr. (1866) 14 Whene þe mynde es stablede sadely with-owtten changynge and vagacyone in Godd. c1450Myrr. our Ladye 42 For this vagacion is caused of dulnes, and of heuynes of harte. 1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione iii. xxvii. 219 Chase fro myn hert all maner darkenes, stablysshe the great vagacions of my mynde that I suffre. 1549Compl. Scot. xiii. 111 Ane of his familiar frendis inquyrit hym of the cause of his inconstant vagatione. 1597Harvey Trimming T. Nashe Wks. (Grosart) III. 53 Neuerthelesse can I accuse you of lazines; for all this time of your vagation, with you I thinke the Signe hath been in Pisces. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 291 Socrates, offended at the bold and blind vagations of men, in their disputations about the measures of the sunne. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iv. ii. 100 By this so curious and exact a Libration, unseemly Contortions and Vagations of the Eye are prevented. 1714― Astro-Theol. iv. v. (1769) 118 But I have myself observed a greater vagation in the third satellite. |