† erranticadj.
Obsolete.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, knights errant.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > romantic conduct > [adjective]
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1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. ii. 73 Presented ten thousand whirlygigs, Windmils, and Turne-pikes to his errantick soule.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xxv. 283 They have been rid many hundred of more then errantick miles.
Derivatives
eˈrrantical adj.
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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
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1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 i. vii. 47 The erranticall Knighthood ought to bee againe renewed.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. viii. 29 For Sancho having now two capacities, the one personall, and the other Squire erranticall, etc.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. v. 57 For the Don..sets her out in her erranticall titles.
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