evagationn.
/iːvəˈɡeɪʃən/ 1.
a. The action of wandering away, or departing from a specified locality, prescribed course, etc.; rambling, roving; an instance of the same.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [noun] > (a) deviation from straight course
blenching1398
turna1400
misdrawing?a1425
swerving1545
digression1552
sklenting1568
excursion1603
diverting1611
diversion1626
deflection1646
deflexure1656
prevarication1672
deviation1675
evagation1692
departurea1694
swerve1736
twist1798
out-throw1855
throw1858
turnaway1922
1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 205 Long Ridges..of..Mountains..serve to stop the evagation of the Vapours.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. iii. 119 To bridle the Evagation of the Sound.
1715 W. Derham Astro-theol. (ed. 2) vi. iii. 148 The preventing the Evagation of the Planets.
1785 Landen Rot. Motion in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 328 That evagation is caused by the motive forces urging the body to turn about AB, AC, AD, conjunctly.
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxii. 431 If the prevailing law had transgressed the limits above assigned, every evagation [of a planet] would have been fatal.
b. In speech or discussion: A digression.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > discursiveness or digression > a digression
sojournc1330
digressionc1374
adigression1483
start1534
interposition1553
vagary1572
excursion1574
excourse1579
parecbasis1584
parenthesis1594
transversal1612
evagation1618
passage1625
far-about1639
excurrency1650
deviation1665
parathesis1668
alieniloquy1727
side-slip1843
excursus1845
1618 Bp. of Llandaff Let. 6 Dec. 175 in J. Hales Golden Remains (1673) They have held their Synod with delays, stays, and evagations.
1887 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 504 Leading us, even though by very tedious evagations, up to a noble climax.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > [noun]
wanderinga1300
evagationc1425
vagrancy1642
moonery1764
mooning1857
c1425 tr. Thomas à Kempis Consol. iii. xxvii Restreyne all euel evagacions & all miȝty temptacions.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. vii. sig. k v Euagacion of thought is to gyue & occupye hymself with talkynges in folysshe & vayne langage.
1503 tr. Kalendayr Shyppars vii. 51 Heyr..followys the branchys of sweyrnes, qwych ar ewylthoght, enwy of good..ewagacyon [1508 Euagacyon], etc.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. avii Euagacion of mynde..is ye doughter of slouth.
1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. iii. 161 That euagation of the soule..is not ex fragilitate.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 63 The soul is..moved..even unto an ecstasie or divine evagation.
a. A diversion. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > [noun]
playeOE
gameeOE
disportc1380
sportc1443
museryc1450
pastime?1473
gaud1587
playgame1596
exercise1622
amusement1632
evagation1638
retirement1641
divertisement1642
diversiona1684
ploya1689
lounge1788
divertissement1804
happening1959
letterboxing1977
timepass1982
1638 H. Wotton Let. 21 Feb. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 579 You married men are deprived of these evagations.
b. A departure from propriety, an extravagance. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > unseemliness or unbecomingness > [noun] > instance of
indecorum1575
undecency1624
indecency1639
evagation1649
impropriety1685
sin1780
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unseemly behaviour or unseemliness > instance of
inconvenienta1464
undecency1624
indecency1639
evagation1649
1649 Bp. J. Hall Humble Motion to Parl. 8 Neither subject to these wilde evagations, nor savage rudenesses.
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