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wanderer|ˈwɒndərə(r)|
Also 5 wanderare, 6 Sc. wandirer, 6 wandreer, 6–7 wandrer, wand'rer.
[f. wander v. + -er1.]
1. A person or thing that is wandering, or that has long wandered (in various senses of the verb); one that is of roving habit or nature. Also fig. or in fig. context.
c1440Promp. Parv. 515/1 Wanderare, vagus, vaga, vacabundus, profugus. 1540Palsgr. Acolastus iii. iii. P ij, Seynge that she [sc. Fortune] is but a wandrer, that strayeth from place to place lyke a vacabunde. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. ii. 44 The wrathfull Skies Gallow the very wanderers of the darke And make them keepe their Caues. 1622Fletcher Sea Voy. iv, Am I for this forsaken? a new love chosen, And my affections, like my fortunes, wanderers? 1712Addison Spect. No. 495 ⁋8 Besides, the whole People is now a Race of such Merchants as are Wanderers by Profession. 1794Coleridge The Sigh 20 In distant climes to roam, A wanderer from my native home. 1798Wordsw. Lines Tintern Abbey 56 O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro' the woods. 1841Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) III. viii. 116 Gipsies and other wanderers pitch their tents around it in the nutting season. 1853J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) II. i. iii. 114 The Catholic Church was in the first instance a wanderer on the earth, and had nothing to attach her to its soil. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvi. III. 709 He had died as he had lived, an exile and a wanderer. 1857Dickens Dorrit i. xxx, She don't know what she means. She's an idiot, a wanderer in her mind. 1914A. S. Woodward Guide Fossil Man (1915) 3 Such characteristic wanderers over the plains as horses, cattle, antelopes, deer and lions.
b. as tr. L. planēta or Gr. πλανήτης: A wandering star, planet.
1614T. Tomkis Albumazar ii. i, Your patron Mercury in his mysterious character, Holds all the markes of th' other wanderers. a1618Sylvester Little Bartas 211 The Sun..Him, just betwixt Six Wand'rers hast thou plac't, Which prance about Him with unequall haste. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 117 Even Planets or Wanderers keep course, and station. 1848Bailey Festus 191 The worlds they call wanderers rolling on high, That enlighten the earth and enliven the sky. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 536 And God made the sun and moon and five other wanderers, as they are called.
†c. Hist. (See quot. 1903.) Obs.
1724A. Shields Life Renwick 65 in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827) II, So many Forces, Foot, Horse, and Dragoons, habitually flashed in Blood, being poured into all Parts of the Country, where the Wanderers were most numerous. 1727P. Walker Life Peden Ibid. I. 115 Foot and Horse of the Enemy being searching for Wanderers, as they were then called. 1816Scott Old Mort. vi, The Wanderer (to give Burley a title which was often conferred on his sect) began to make his horse ready. 1903Harbottle Dict. Hist. Allusions 275 Wanderers, the Covenanters who left their homes to follow their dispossessed ministers in 1669 were so called.
2. Zool. Used as translation of various mod.L. terms of classification; a bird of the group Vagatores in Macgillivray's system; one of the wandering spiders (Vacabundæ).
1837Macgillivray Brit. Birds I. 481 That very important tribe of birds to which the name of Vagatores or Wanderers may be applied. |