errantadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈɛrənt/,

/ˈɛrn̩t/, U.S.

/ˈɛrənt/

Forms: Also Middle English erraunt(e, errawnt(e, 1600s errand. See also arrant adj.

Etymology: < French errant, originally two distinct words, which, however, were to some extent confused in French. In the senses represented by branch I it is present participle of Old French errer (present tense oirre ), also written esrer , earlier edrer < vulgar Latin iterāre (= literary late Latin itinerāre , itinerāri ) to journey, travel, < iter journey. In the senses represented by branch III it is < Latin errant-em present participle of errāre , (French errer , of learned origin) to stray, wander, err n. The primary notion in branch II is uncertain; it seems natural to interpret thief errant as ‘vagrant’ thief, and so to refer it to errare; but if Romanic scholars be right in referring juif errant (see 3) to iterāre, this derivation may be correct here; or perhaps the two words were already confused when the phrase arose.

I. Itinerant, travelling.

a. [after French chevalier errant; compare ‘ensemble oirrent li chevalier’ quoted in Godefroy] Said of knights who travelled about in quest of adventure. See knight-errant n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > in search of adventure

errant1470

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 810 Knyȝt erraunt.]

1470 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur iv. xii. 134 Here maye ye see what auentures befallen oftyme of erraunte knyghtes.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. vi. sig. R Now she deuiz'd amongst the warlike rout..To seeke her errant Knight.

1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. H^v I haue read the table Or errant knighthood.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 3 Chief of Domestick Knights and Errant, Either for Chastel or for Warrant.

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. x. 28 He journeyed like errant knight the while.

b. transferred (often as present participle): Travelling, roaming (in quest of adventure, or like a knight-errant). poetic or quasi-archaic.

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1639 J. Shirley Ball iv. sig. H3^v We are no Ladies errant.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) iii. 96 Boys and Youths..Forsook their homes..errant in the quest Of Patron.

1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde ii. v.iii. 219 Errant for geste and enterprise.

1858 M. Oliphant Laird of Norlaw I. 289 Thinking of that ship, or of the sons of other mothers who were errant in her.

1858 Sat. Rev. 5 61/2 That same lady-errant who, etc.

c. That is in the spirit of a knight-errant; also, with notion of 9, erratic, ‘quixotic’.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > romantic conduct > [adjective]

errantical1612

errantic1654

quixotical1657

Quixote1708

quixotish1743

quixotic1777

errant1822

1822 ‘B. Cornwall’ Ep. to Sir J. Lawrence in Misc. Poems With pleasure which rewards mine errant pains.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxviii. 306 Her temerity in such an errant undertaking.

d. n. A knight-errant; one who travels in the manner or spirit of a knight-errant.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > brave warrior > knightly hero

knight-errantc1400

knight adventurous1429

knight of adventurers1530

paladin1592

Palmerin1613

knight adventurera1640

erranta1643

preux chevalier1771

Galahad1854

a1643 W. Cartwright Lady-errant iv. i, in Comedies (1651) sig. d3^v Truth is the Essence of our Order, we Who are Errants cannot deceive and Be.

1689 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 309 Isaac [Vossius] was invited thither [to Sweden] by the heroic and royal errant.

1811 P. B. Shelley in Hogg Life I. 414 If we were errants, you should have the tilting all to yourself.

†2. pawn errant [ < Old French paonnet errant ( Rom. Rose)] : in chess, a travelling pawn, one that has been advanced from its original square.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > positions or status of pawns

pawn errantc1369

fers1474

passed pawn1777

queen1797

promotion1799

isolated pawn1842

pawn skeleton1915

hanging pawn1927

pawn chain1937

c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 661 Fortune seyde..‘mate’ in mid pointe of the chekkere With a powne erraunt.

†3. Errant Jew [French juif errant] : the ‘Wandering Jew’; in quot. ?a1400 transferred.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer > specific wanderer

Errant Jew?a1400

the Wandering Jew1632

?a1400 Morte Arth. 2895 Thus es þe geante for-juste, that errawnte Iewe.

†4. In the designations of certain English legal functionaries: baliff-errant n. [ < Anglo-Norman baillif errant, 14 Edw. III, st. 1. c. 9] (see bailiff n. Compounds 1). justice-errant n. [ < Anglo-Norman justice-erraunt, Britton c1290; in Anglo-Latin always justiciarius itinerans] a justice who travels on circuit.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > itinerant or on circuit

justices in eyre1297

justice-errant1528–30

justice itinerant1612

circuiter1654

circuita1715

circuiteer1742

circuit-judge1801

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. i^v/1 Our lord the kynge..shall not assigne Justicis wythin the Cite..otherthan Justicis errauntis to the tour of London [etc.].

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xliii The originall & y^e proces were sent before iustyces errantes where y^e partyes com.

1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 141 Justices that goe circuit, and Bailiffes at large..are therefore called Justices Errants and Bailiffes Errants.

5. Said gen. of itinerant functionaries, offices, or jurisdictions.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > in connection with employment > having a roving commission

walking1591

errant1638

roving1826

1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) ix. 292 Whether every errant Priest is so furnished, that comes unto them in that name?

1875 A. Helps Social Pressure iv. 60 All the functionaries of government were more errant.

1887 Gore in Expositor June 417 We find..side by side with..the local ministry of Bishops and Deacons, a still general or errant ministry.

II. In senses of arrant adj. 2 – 6.

†6. In phrase thief errant, errant (arrant) thief: in Chaucer, the leader of a band of robbers; subsequently, a notorious, ‘common’ thief. Obsolete except in form arrant adj.

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c1386 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 120 An outlawe or a thef erraunt. [See the whole passage.]

1553 J. Bale Vocacyon in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 362 The most errande thefe and mercilesse murtherer.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 407 There is not so ranke a traytor, nor so arrant a thefe.

1637 J. Pocklington Sunday no Sabbath 13 The arrantest Pharisee theefe in Jerusalem.

1724 J. Swift Blunders of Quilca in Wks. (1755) VI. ii. 174 Every servant an arrant [1745: errant] thief as to victuals and drink.

1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xxvii. 247 Who, like errant thieves, could not hold up their heads in an honest house.

†7. Used as an intensive with nouns of reproachful sense: Thoroughgoing, ‘unmitigated’: see arrant adj. 3a, 3b.

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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > heinous thing > [adjective]

errant1393

arrant1639

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > heinous person > [adjective]

flagitiousc1384

arrant1393

errant1393

scarleta1643

atrocious1772

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute > of something bad or reprobated > of a person

arrant1393

errant1393

starka1470

unconscionable1591

omnipotent1596

incarnative1598

run devil1786

incarnate1820

blithering1889

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute > of something bad or reprobated

properc1430

arrant1639

erranta1720

defecated1796

unredeemed1799

blank1854

first class1868

prize1903

mucking1917

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 307 An erraunt vsurer.

1494 R. Fabyan New Chron. Eng. v. lxxx. 58 Beyng a errant Traytoure.

1538 Bp. C. Tunstall in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. i. xliv. 338 Reginald Pole, comen of a noble blood, and thereby the more errant traitor.

1619 W. Whately Gods Husb. (1622) i. 76 Thou art an errand grosse hypocrite.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 319 They are errant Cowards.

a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) II. 131 Doing a thing in one Parliament, and ordering it to be no precedent to another, is an errant bull.

1776 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. ii. 327 This hill, till about the year 995, was an errant desert..and uninhabitable.

1840 B. H. Smart Walker's Crit. Pronouncing Dict. says that errant is ‘often wrongly used for arrant’.

†8.

a. Without opprobrious sense: Thorough, downright absolute, unquestionable. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute

shirea1225

purec1300

properc1380

plainc1395

cleana1400

fine?a1400

entirec1400

veryc1400

starka1425

utterc1430

utterlyc1440

merec1443

absolute1531

outright1532

cleara1535

bloodyc1540

unproachable1544

flat1553

downright1577

sheer1583

right-down?1586

single1590

peremptory1601

perfecta1616

downa1625

implicit1625

every way1628

blank1637

out-and-outa1642

errant1644

inaccessional1651

thorough-paced1651

even down1654

dead1660

double-dyed1667

through stitch1681

through-stitched1682

total1702

thoroughgoing1719

thorough-sped1730

regular1740

plumb1748

hollow1751

unextenuated1765

unmitigated1783

stick, stock, stone dead1796

positive1802

rank1809

heart-whole1823

skire1825

solid1830

fair1835

teetotal1840

bodacious1845

raw1856

literal1857

resounding1873

roaring1884

all out1893

fucking1893

pink1896

twenty-four carat1900

grand slam1915

stone1928

diabolical1933

fricking1937

righteous1940

fecking1952

raving1954

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 26 Protestants and professors, who live and dye in as arrant and implicit faith, as any lay Papist of Loretto.

c1698 J. Locke Thoughts on Conduct of Understanding (1781) 20 A country gentleman who..can away with no company whose discourse goes beyond what claret and dissoluteness inspire. To such a one truly an ordinary coffee-house gleaner is an errant statesman.

1703 S. Centlivre Love's Contrivance v. iii. 61 I shall become as errant a Husband as you'd wish.

1710 H. Cromwell Let. 5 Nov. in A. Pope Wks. V. 99 He is so errant a whig, that he strains even beyond his author, in his passion for liberty.

†b. as predicate ? Unquestionable.

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1653 tr. J. Stegmann Brevis Disq. in Phenix (1708) II. 333 Unless we take that for errant which is in question..Whether the Pope be the infallible Judg of Controversies.

III. Straying, wandering, erring.

a. Astray, wandering, roving; straying from the proper course or place; having no fixed course.In first quot. used as a mere participle.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [adjective] > straying or going astray

willa1325

wilsomea1375

errant14..

miswandering?a1425

straying1553

straggling1589

extravagant1604

wandering1606

roytish1648

erroneous1731

wildering1827

stray-running1914

14.. Circumcision in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 97 To bryng the lost schepe ageyn..That was erraunt ydyl and in vayne.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. viii. sig. Kk2 A shady glade..to her reueald By errant Sprights, but from all men conceald.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 8 As knots..Infects the sound Pine, and diuerts his graine, Tortiue and errant from his course of growth.

a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) II. 7 The Lord Rochester at the place appointed, who..brought an errant life-guard man.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 213 When he has seen the errant damsel safe home, it will be time enough to claim his reward.

1861 ‘N. Temple’ & ‘E. Trevor’ Tannhäuser 21 With errant foot He wander'd on to Hörsel.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. vi. 222 With an errant motion of his hands as if he could have torn himself.

†b. Said of the planets (Latin stellæ errantes = Greek ἀστέρες πλανῆται) as opposed to the fixed stars. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > planetary movement > [adjective] > wandering

wandering1526

errantc1616

erratile1652

c1616 R. C. Certaine Poems in Times' Whistle (1871) 146 Astronomers that can foretell eventes..By errant planettes & by fixèd starres.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 210 There are just seven Planets or errant Starres in the lower orbs of heaven.

a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 17 Tis but her Errant motion; Hee, the Same Light, to the world.

1860 R. W. Emerson Beauty in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 245 He heard a voice none else could hear From centred and from errant sphere.]

†c. In the classification of diseases; = erratic adj. and n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > spreading or invasive

runninga1382

walkinga1398

erratic1547

accessive1575

errant1621

vagrant1656

metastatic1822

ambulant1828

aggressive1851

proliferous1874

proliferative1888

metastasizing1906

invasive1926

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. i. ii. 9 Diseases..Errant, Fixed, Simple,..&c.

10.

a. Erring in opinion, conduct, etc.; deviating from the correct standard.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adjective]

erringa1340

overseena1393

willa1400

out of one's book (also books)1549

straying1553

faulting1566

deceived1569

seek1569

tripping1577

amiss1582

mistaking1582

naught1597

errant1609

solecistical1654

solecismical1656

wrong1695

solecistic1865

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [adjective] > erring in opinion or belief

mislevingc1390

erroneous1512

mismeaning1532

errorious1543

wide1547

deceived1569

errant1609

mislearned1642

pseudodoxalc1648

pseudodox1650

vicious1657

heterodox1658

1609 G. Chapman End Learn. in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 253 Skill, that doth produce But tearmes and tongues, and parroting of arte, Without that powre to rule the errant part.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1676 (1955) IV. 97 The famous beauty & errant Lady, the Dutchesse of Mazarine.

1881 G. F. Watts in 19th Cent. Mar. 452 Correcting errant taste in dress.

1883 Brit. Q. Rev. July 4 To counteract an errant condition by another condition which is itself errant.

b. Used as n. rare.

ΚΠ

1839 J. Rogers Antipopopriestian vi. 219 Oh lunacy, insanity, madness..Oh papal errant, how great is your error!..how ridiculous your creed!

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单词	errant
释义	errantadj.n. Brit. /ˈɛrənt/, /ˈɛrn̩t/, U.S. /ˈɛrənt/ Forms: Also Middle English erraunt(e, errawnt(e, 1600s errand. See also arrant adj. Etymology: < French errant, originally two distinct words, which, however, were to some extent confused in French. In the senses represented by branch I it is present participle of Old French errer (present tense oirre ), also written esrer , earlier edrer < vulgar Latin iterāre (= literary late Latin itinerāre , itinerāri ) to journey, travel, < iter journey. In the senses represented by branch III it is < Latin errant-em present participle of errāre , (French errer , of learned origin) to stray, wander, err n. The primary notion in branch II is uncertain; it seems natural to interpret thief errant as ‘vagrant’ thief, and so to refer it to errare; but if Romanic scholars be right in referring juif errant (see 3) to iterāre, this derivation may be correct here; or perhaps the two words were already confused when the phrase arose. I. Itinerant, travelling. 1. a. [after French chevalier errant; compare ‘ensemble oirrent li chevalier’ quoted in Godefroy] Said of knights who travelled about in quest of adventure. See knight-errant n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > in search of adventure errant1470 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 810 Knyȝt erraunt.] 1470 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur iv. xii. 134 Here maye ye see what auentures befallen oftyme of erraunte knyghtes. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. vi. sig. R Now she deuiz'd amongst the warlike rout..To seeke her errant Knight. View more context for this quotation 1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. H^v I haue read the table Or errant knighthood. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 3 Chief of Domestick Knights and Errant, Either for Chastel or for Warrant. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. x. 28 He journeyed like errant knight the while. b. transferred (often as present participle): Travelling, roaming (in quest of adventure, or like a knight-errant). poetic or quasi-archaic. ΚΠ 1639 J. Shirley Ball iv. sig. H3^v We are no Ladies errant. a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) iii. 96 Boys and Youths..Forsook their homes..errant in the quest Of Patron. 1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde ii. v.iii. 219 Errant for geste and enterprise. 1858 M. Oliphant Laird of Norlaw I. 289 Thinking of that ship, or of the sons of other mothers who were errant in her. 1858 Sat. Rev. 5 61/2 That same lady-errant who, etc. c. That is in the spirit of a knight-errant; also, with notion of 9, erratic, ‘quixotic’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > romantic conduct > [adjective] errantical1612 errantic1654 quixotical1657 Quixote1708 quixotish1743 quixotic1777 errant1822 1822 ‘B. Cornwall’ Ep. to Sir J. Lawrence in Misc. Poems With pleasure which rewards mine errant pains. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxviii. 306 Her temerity in such an errant undertaking. d. n. A knight-errant; one who travels in the manner or spirit of a knight-errant. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > brave warrior > knightly hero knight-errantc1400 knight adventurous1429 knight of adventurers1530 paladin1592 Palmerin1613 knight adventurera1640 erranta1643 preux chevalier1771 Galahad1854 a1643 W. Cartwright Lady-errant iv. i, in Comedies (1651) sig. d3^v Truth is the Essence of our Order, we Who are Errants cannot deceive and Be. 1689 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 309 Isaac [Vossius] was invited thither [to Sweden] by the heroic and royal errant. 1811 P. B. Shelley in Hogg Life I. 414 If we were errants, you should have the tilting all to yourself. †2. pawn errant [ < Old French paonnet errant ( Rom. Rose)] : in chess, a travelling pawn, one that has been advanced from its original square. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > positions or status of pawns pawn errantc1369 fers1474 passed pawn1777 queen1797 promotion1799 isolated pawn1842 pawn skeleton1915 hanging pawn1927 pawn chain1937 c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 661 Fortune seyde..‘mate’ in mid pointe of the chekkere With a powne erraunt. †3. Errant Jew [French juif errant] : the ‘Wandering Jew’; in quot. ?a1400 transferred. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer > specific wanderer Errant Jew?a1400 the Wandering Jew1632 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 2895 Thus es þe geante for-juste, that errawnte Iewe. †4. In the designations of certain English legal functionaries: baliff-errant n. [ < Anglo-Norman baillif errant, 14 Edw. III, st. 1. c. 9] (see bailiff n. Compounds 1). justice-errant n. [ < Anglo-Norman justice-erraunt, Britton c1290; in Anglo-Latin always justiciarius itinerans] a justice who travels on circuit. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > itinerant or on circuit justices in eyre1297 justice-errant1528–30 justice itinerant1612 circuiter1654 circuita1715 circuiteer1742 circuit-judge1801 c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. i^v/1 Our lord the kynge..shall not assigne Justicis wythin the Cite..otherthan Justicis errauntis to the tour of London [etc.]. 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xliii The originall & y^e proces were sent before iustyces errantes where y^e partyes com. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 141 Justices that goe circuit, and Bailiffes at large..are therefore called Justices Errants and Bailiffes Errants. 5. Said gen. of itinerant functionaries, offices, or jurisdictions. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > in connection with employment > having a roving commission walking1591 errant1638 roving1826 1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) ix. 292 Whether every errant Priest is so furnished, that comes unto them in that name? 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure iv. 60 All the functionaries of government were more errant. 1887 Gore in Expositor June 417 We find..side by side with..the local ministry of Bishops and Deacons, a still general or errant ministry. II. In senses of arrant adj. 2 – 6. †6. In phrase thief errant, errant (arrant) thief: in Chaucer, the leader of a band of robbers; subsequently, a notorious, ‘common’ thief. Obsolete except in form arrant adj. ΚΠ c1386 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 120 An outlawe or a thef erraunt. [See the whole passage.] 1553 J. Bale Vocacyon in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 362 The most errande thefe and mercilesse murtherer. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 407 There is not so ranke a traytor, nor so arrant a thefe. 1637 J. Pocklington Sunday no Sabbath 13 The arrantest Pharisee theefe in Jerusalem. 1724 J. Swift Blunders of Quilca in Wks. (1755) VI. ii. 174 Every servant an arrant [1745: errant] thief as to victuals and drink. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xxvii. 247 Who, like errant thieves, could not hold up their heads in an honest house. †7. Used as an intensive with nouns of reproachful sense: Thoroughgoing, ‘unmitigated’: see arrant adj. 3a, 3b. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > heinous thing > [adjective] errant1393 arrant1639 the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > heinous person > [adjective] flagitiousc1384 arrant1393 errant1393 scarleta1643 atrocious1772 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute > of something bad or reprobated > of a person arrant1393 errant1393 starka1470 unconscionable1591 omnipotent1596 incarnative1598 run devil1786 incarnate1820 blithering1889 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute > of something bad or reprobated properc1430 arrant1639 erranta1720 defecated1796 unredeemed1799 blank1854 first class1868 prize1903 mucking1917 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 307 An erraunt vsurer. 1494 R. Fabyan New Chron. Eng. v. lxxx. 58 Beyng a errant Traytoure. 1538 Bp. C. Tunstall in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. i. xliv. 338 Reginald Pole, comen of a noble blood, and thereby the more errant traitor. 1619 W. Whately Gods Husb. (1622) i. 76 Thou art an errand grosse hypocrite. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 319 They are errant Cowards. a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) II. 131 Doing a thing in one Parliament, and ordering it to be no precedent to another, is an errant bull. 1776 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. ii. 327 This hill, till about the year 995, was an errant desert..and uninhabitable. 1840 B. H. Smart Walker's Crit. Pronouncing Dict. says that errant is ‘often wrongly used for arrant’. †8. a. Without opprobrious sense: Thorough, downright absolute, unquestionable. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute shirea1225 purec1300 properc1380 plainc1395 cleana1400 fine?a1400 entirec1400 veryc1400 starka1425 utterc1430 utterlyc1440 merec1443 absolute1531 outright1532 cleara1535 bloodyc1540 unproachable1544 flat1553 downright1577 sheer1583 right-down?1586 single1590 peremptory1601 perfecta1616 downa1625 implicit1625 every way1628 blank1637 out-and-outa1642 errant1644 inaccessional1651 thorough-paced1651 even down1654 dead1660 double-dyed1667 through stitch1681 through-stitched1682 total1702 thoroughgoing1719 thorough-sped1730 regular1740 plumb1748 hollow1751 unextenuated1765 unmitigated1783 stick, stock, stone dead1796 positive1802 rank1809 heart-whole1823 skire1825 solid1830 fair1835 teetotal1840 bodacious1845 raw1856 literal1857 resounding1873 roaring1884 all out1893 fucking1893 pink1896 twenty-four carat1900 grand slam1915 stone1928 diabolical1933 fricking1937 righteous1940 fecking1952 raving1954 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 26 Protestants and professors, who live and dye in as arrant and implicit faith, as any lay Papist of Loretto. c1698 J. Locke Thoughts on Conduct of Understanding (1781) 20 A country gentleman who..can away with no company whose discourse goes beyond what claret and dissoluteness inspire. To such a one truly an ordinary coffee-house gleaner is an errant statesman. 1703 S. Centlivre Love's Contrivance v. iii. 61 I shall become as errant a Husband as you'd wish. 1710 H. Cromwell Let. 5 Nov. in A. Pope Wks. V. 99 He is so errant a whig, that he strains even beyond his author, in his passion for liberty. †b. as predicate ? Unquestionable. ΚΠ 1653 tr. J. Stegmann Brevis Disq. in Phenix (1708) II. 333 Unless we take that for errant which is in question..Whether the Pope be the infallible Judg of Controversies. III. Straying, wandering, erring. 9. a. Astray, wandering, roving; straying from the proper course or place; having no fixed course.In first quot. used as a mere participle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [adjective] > straying or going astray willa1325 wilsomea1375 errant14.. miswandering?a1425 straying1553 straggling1589 extravagant1604 wandering1606 roytish1648 erroneous1731 wildering1827 stray-running1914 14.. Circumcision in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 97 To bryng the lost schepe ageyn..That was erraunt ydyl and in vayne. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. viii. sig. Kk2 A shady glade..to her reueald By errant Sprights, but from all men conceald. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 8 As knots..Infects the sound Pine, and diuerts his graine, Tortiue and errant from his course of growth. View more context for this quotation a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) II. 7 The Lord Rochester at the place appointed, who..brought an errant life-guard man. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 213 When he has seen the errant damsel safe home, it will be time enough to claim his reward. 1861 ‘N. Temple’ & ‘E. Trevor’ Tannhäuser 21 With errant foot He wander'd on to Hörsel. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. vi. 222 With an errant motion of his hands as if he could have torn himself. †b. Said of the planets (Latin stellæ errantes = Greek ἀστέρες πλανῆται) as opposed to the fixed stars. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > planetary movement > [adjective] > wandering wandering1526 errantc1616 erratile1652 c1616 R. C. Certaine Poems in Times' Whistle (1871) 146 Astronomers that can foretell eventes..By errant planettes & by fixèd starres. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 210 There are just seven Planets or errant Starres in the lower orbs of heaven. View more context for this quotation a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 17 Tis but her Errant motion; Hee, the Same Light, to the world. 1860 R. W. Emerson Beauty in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 245 He heard a voice none else could hear From centred and from errant sphere.] †c. In the classification of diseases; = erratic adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > spreading or invasive runninga1382 walkinga1398 erratic1547 accessive1575 errant1621 vagrant1656 metastatic1822 ambulant1828 aggressive1851 proliferous1874 proliferative1888 metastasizing1906 invasive1926 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. i. ii. 9 Diseases..Errant, Fixed, Simple,..&c. 10. a. Erring in opinion, conduct, etc.; deviating from the correct standard. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adjective] erringa1340 overseena1393 willa1400 out of one's book (also books)1549 straying1553 faulting1566 deceived1569 seek1569 tripping1577 amiss1582 mistaking1582 naught1597 errant1609 solecistical1654 solecismical1656 wrong1695 solecistic1865 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [adjective] > erring in opinion or belief mislevingc1390 erroneous1512 mismeaning1532 errorious1543 wide1547 deceived1569 errant1609 mislearned1642 pseudodoxalc1648 pseudodox1650 vicious1657 heterodox1658 1609 G. Chapman End Learn. in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 253 Skill, that doth produce But tearmes and tongues, and parroting of arte, Without that powre to rule the errant part. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1676 (1955) IV. 97 The famous beauty & errant Lady, the Dutchesse of Mazarine. 1881 G. F. Watts in 19th Cent. Mar. 452 Correcting errant taste in dress. 1883 Brit. Q. Rev. July 4 To counteract an errant condition by another condition which is itself errant. b. Used as n. rare. ΚΠ 1839 J. Rogers Antipopopriestian vi. 219 Oh lunacy, insanity, madness..Oh papal errant, how great is your error!..how ridiculous your creed! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). errantv. Etymology: < errant adj.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈerrant. intransitive. To travel abroad (like a knight errant).Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > in search of adventure errant1807 1807 R. Wilson Jrnl. 14 Nov. The British soldier..has the advantage of erranting for his service. He seeks his glory abroad. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < adj.n.c1369v.1807
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