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† ˈvagous, a. Obs.
[ad. L. vagus: see vague a.]
Vagrant or vague, in various senses; departing from or exceeding just or ordinary bounds; irregular, inordinate; unsettled, wandering.
1660tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. i. i. 15 We have no other assurance of it then so wild and vagous a tradition. Ibid. iii. 32, I know not what natural vagous and indetermin'd notion. 1684N. S. tr. Crit. Enq. Edit. Bible ix. 67 The first is only a Vagous way of Disputation, propounding now one thing, now another. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 78 The whole throng of Physicians..crieth it up..to..cure vagous Pains. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 107 Such as were born and begot of a single woman, through a vagous Lust,..were called Spurii. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) I. 319 [They] were no doubt liable to vagous and wandering Pains. |