divagatev.
/ˈdʌɪvəɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈdaɪvəˌɡeɪt/, /ˈdɪvəˌɡeɪt/ intransitive. To wander about; to stray from one place or subject to another.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander
wharvec890
woreOE
wandera1000
rengec1230
wagc1325
roamc1330
errc1374
raikc1390
ravec1390
rumblec1400
rollc1405
railc1425
roit1440
waverc1440
rangea1450
rove1481
to-waver1487
vaguea1525
evague1533
rangle1567
to go a-strayinga1586
vagary1598
divagate1599
obambulate1614
vagitate1614
ramble1615
divage1623
pererrate1623
squander1630
peramble1632
rink1710
ratch1801
browse1803
vagrate1807
bum1857
piroot1858
scamander1864
truck1864
bat1867
vagrant1886
float1901
vagulate1918
pissant1945
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > digress
overleapc1400
to cast, fet, fetch, go, take a compass?a1500
digress1530
traverse1530
decline?1543
square1567
rovea1575
deviate1638
to step aside1653
swerve1658
to sally out1660
transgress1662
to run off1687
canceleera1697
cantona1734
excurse1748
to travel out of the record1770
divagate1852
desult1872
sidetrack1893
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 203/1 [A prescription] agaynste divagatinge payne.
1852 Fraser's Mag. 45 171 Sir James had divagated into the question of Eternal Punishment.
1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains vi. 200 So does a child's balloon divagate upon the currents of the air.
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