extravagantadj.n.

/ɛkˈstravəɡənt/

Forms: Also 1500s, 1600s aphetic stravagant adj. and n.

Etymology: In the special use A. 2, B. 1, directly < medieval Latin extrāvagant-em , present participle of extrāvagārī (or extrā vagārī ): see extravagate v. The wider use came late in 16th cent. from French extravagant , which appears first in 14th cent. The form stravagant adj. and n., < Italian, is somewhat earlier in our quots. Compare Italian estravagante, stravagante (15th cent.), Spanish estravagante.

A. adj.

†1.

a. That wanders out of bounds; straying, roaming, vagrant. Obsolete exc. after Shakespeare.

ΘΚΠ

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

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wilsomea1375

errant14..

miswandering?a1425

straying1553

straggling1589

extravagant1604

wandering1606

roytish1648

erroneous1731

wildering1827

stray-running1914

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 135 At his [sc. the cock's] warning ..Th'extrauagant [1603 strauagant] and erring spirit hies To his confine.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 93 Now dispersed into ample lakes, and again recollecting his extrauagant waters.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) i. i. 138 An extrauagant, and wheeling Stranger, Of here, and euery where.

1841 R. W. Emerson Hist. in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 27 Rare, extravagant spirits come by us at intervals.

†b. Military. Of an officer: Keeping no fixed place; having a roving function. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [adjective] > with roving function

extravagant1622

1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre ii. viii. 69 He [the Serjeant] hath in the body of the Company, no Raunge at all, but is extravagant, and going vp and downe to oversee all Raunges.

1672 T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline i. v. 13 The two other Corporals to be extravagant, that is to view and see each Soldier keep his place.

2. Canon Law. The distinctive epithet of certain papal constitutions. [The Latin adjective seems originally to have been applied casually to denote ‘stray’ decrees not codified or collected in the decretals. They were afterwards added to the decretals, but retained their customary designation, to distinguish them from the older portions of the collection.]

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > law > canon law > [adjective] > additional

extravagant1387

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 285 A constitucioun þat is not i-putte in þe course of lawes is i-cleped a constitucioun extravagant.

1608 Bp. T. Morton Preamble Incounter 109 He citeth the Constitution extrauagant of Pope Bonifacius.

1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) Each title being devoted to one or more ‘extravagant’ Constitutions.

†3. Spreading or projecting beyond bounds; straggling. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [adjective] > irregularly arranged

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extravagant1608

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scambling1702

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1608 B. Jonson Masque of Blacknesse in Characters Two Royall Masques 65 They [sc. the Masquers] were all seene, but in an extrauagant order.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 323 The prominency of this extravagant Tower.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 111 Trimming up such as you spare for Standards..from their extravagant Branches.

1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 64 Cutting the too thick, and extravagant Roots a little.

†4. Widely divergent or discrepant (from, to); remote from, irrelevant or foreign to a purpose or subject. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > very different from

extravagant1601

remote1603

1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 115 A position extrauagant from all learning.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence x. 337 Other languages, such as vnto ours are altogether strange and extrauagant.

1650 S. Clarke Marrow Eccl. Hist. (1654) i. 108 He never brake forth into reproaches extravagant from the cause.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 166 They were indeed the more knowing men, but their learning was extravagant to their Office.

1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 55 Whose Character..I deem not much extravagant here to insert.

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. vi. iii. sig. Nn4^v Wondring to find our Customs so extravagant and differing from those of his Country.

†5. Varying widely from what is usual or proper; unusual, abnormal, strange; unbecoming, unsuitable. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > not conforming to standard behaviour

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unformalc1449

informalc1475

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monstrous1568

odd1577

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free-spirited1613

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inconformable1633

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unconformable1702

outrageous1778

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Bohemian1846

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Bohemic1874

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hard case1904

jazz1917

offbeat1922

deviant1935

deviate1945

oddball1945

left field1951

way out1955

boho1958

non-conformant1960

sideways1969

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [adjective] > deviating from rule or standard > anomalous

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heteroclite1598

anomalous1606

heteroclitic1632

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extravagant1650

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heterogeneous1760

heterogenous1760

rogue1952

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine v. viii. 157 Persons..treacherously slain, which occasioned their hasty, tumultuary, and extravagant interment.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 109 Those extravagant Phænomena, which we observed in the first Experiment of Torricellius.

a1668 W. Davenant Masque in Wks. (1673) 383 In an extravagant posture stood a Tyger.

1689 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 586 Some..officers, are taken into custody for drinking extravagant healths, and speaking reflectingly of his majestie.

1689 Bp. G. Burnet Tracts I. 12 Lausanne is situated on three Hills..This extravagant situation of the Town.

1701 tr. J. Le Clerc Lives Primitive Fathers 56 A Garment which is not commonly seen, seems Extravagant, though it was Fashionable in former Times.

6. ‘Roving beyond just limits or prescribed methods’ (Johnson); exceeding the bounds of reason or propriety; excessive, irregular, fantastically absurd. Now with stronger sense: Astonishingly or flagrantly excessive or extreme.

a. of persons. Now rare except with agent-noun or const. in.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [adjective] > specifically of persons

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unmeasurablec1405

immoderatec1450

inordinatec1450

dissolutec1475

excessive1586

extravagant1600

painful1749

unforbearing1820

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Induct. sig. Biv Shall I be so extrauagant to thinke That happie judgements and composed spirits Will challenge me for taxing such as these?

1633 Durie in Presbyterian Rev. (1887) 305 Those y^t were so extrauagant as to maintaine it unlawfull [etc.].

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. iii. §1 For them to have been so extravagant in their accounts of themselves.

1705 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 2) I. iii. 264 Zedekiah..had..no Regard..for Virtue; and his Companions were altogether as impious and extravagant as himself.

1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 73 The extravagant panegyrist of various living characters.

1840 T. B. Macaulay Ranke's Hist. in Ess. (1854) II. 556/1 He [the enthusiast] may be vulgar, ignorant, visionary, extravagant.

b. of dispositions, passions, actions, opinions, conditions, demands, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > other specific behaviour > [adjective] > extravagant

mada1470

wild1515

extravagant1598

throughother1813

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree > excessive in degree

unmeasurablea1398

dismeasurec1400

dismeasurable1477

dismeasured1483

over1494

endlya1513

intolerable1544

wide1574

overloading1576

unconscionable1576

meanless1587

powerable1588

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grievous1632

flagrant1634

exorbitant1648

overbearinga1708

unbalanced1712

well-favoured1746

steep1856

thick1884

ripe1918

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 67 This is a gyft that I haue..a foolish extrauagant spirit, full of formes, figures, shapes [etc.] .

1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle iii. 30 Your Father's in an extravagant rage.

1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 162. ¶3 There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in these great natural Genius's.

1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. iv. 234 It was impossible..that the Emperor would listen to these extravagant demands.

1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 123 A mind poisoned by extravagant opinions.

1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing iv. 204 The extravagant praise bestowed on the best pictures of the Greeks.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 164 Both had..extravagant whimsies about dress.

1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 300 It is not extravagant to suppose..that they had secret instructions.

7. Exceeding the bounds of economy or necessity in expenditure, mode of living, etc.; profuse, prodigal, wasteful.

a. Of persons. (Const. of.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective]

largea1225

fool-largec1325

costlewa1387

outragea1400

riotousc1405

sumptuousa1425

superfluea1425

prodigatec1429

profuse?a1475

lavishc1475

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superfluous1531

wasteful1538

costly?1555

prodigal1570

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spenseful1600

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spendful1611

dingthrifty1615

impendious1623

expensive1628

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spendthrifty1642

flush1703

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profligate1718

dispendious1727

wastry1791

wasterful1821

wastrife1822

prodigalish1857

high-rolling1890

wastrel1896

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [adjective] > extravagant or spendthrift (of persons)

fool-largec1325

costlewa1387

costly?1555

improvident1589

spenseful1600

expenseful1605

spendthrift1607

spendful1611

dingthrifty1615

impendious1623

spendthrifty1642

expensive1650

extravagant1711

hand-to-mouth1748

spendy1911

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 243. ¶8 An extravagant Man..has nothing else to recommend him but a false Generosity.

1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 55 What need we prove extravagant of Time.

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. ii. 39 His eldest son was careless and extravagant .

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar i. 6 The rich were extravagant, for life had ceased to have practical interest, except for its material pleasures.

b. Of expense, interest, price, etc.: Exorbitant.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [adjective]

high1542

strong1599

rank1604

exorbitant1670

extravagant1707

stiff1824

sky-high1829

steep1856

stratospherical1936

1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 165 His Lordship gave an extravagant interest of 20 per cent.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 108 The Price..was to us indeed extravagant, tho' to them moderate.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation iv. 106 An extravagant price to pay for the encouragement of sacred learning.

B. n.

1. Canon Law. An ‘extravagant’ constitution: see A. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > law > canon law > [noun] > ecclesiastical or papal decrees forming part of > constitution not codified in

extravagant1502

extravagantine1549

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. viii. sig. t.ii Those the whiche cutte..the body of ony deed persone..ben acursyd..by y^e extrauagant of Bonyface.

a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. ii. §2 The Canon law, to which the Canonist will stand..are the Decretall letters, and all the extravagants.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 82 Gratian's decree, Gregory's decretals, the sixth decretal, the Clementine constitutions, and the extravagants of John and his successors, form the..body of the Roman canon law.

1886 W. Stubbs 17 Lect. Study Hist. xiii. 306 The Extravagants as they were called, that is the authoritative sentences of the Popes which were not yet codified.

†2. One who strays or wanders from a place; a vagrant, wanderer. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

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

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roamerc1400

wandererc1440

whirlerc1440

gangrela1450

fluttererc1450

straggler1530

gadlinga1542

ranger1560

rover1568

fugitive1570

rangler1575

fleeter1581

extravagant1583

scatterling1590

vagranta1592

rambler1624

erratic1669

stravaiger1821

multivagant1895

1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Ov^v May you as rogues, extrauagantes, and straglers from the Heauenlye Country be arrested of..Christ Iesus.

1613 T. Adams White Deuil 26 I speake to you setled Citizens, not extrauagants.

1630–50 W. Bradford Hist. Plymouth Plant. ii. (1856) 187 Ordinarie officers are bound cheefly to their flocks..and are not to be extravagants.

figurative.1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 97 [They] are censurable for extravagants from their Commission.

†3.

a. One who does not keep within ordinary or reasonable limits; an exceptional or eccentric person; a fanatic. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity > person

fantastical1589

fantastic1598

earwig brain1599

extravagant1627

fanatic1644

energumen1660

original1675

toy-pate1702

gig1777

quiz1780

quoz?1780

rum touch1800

crotcheteer1815

pistol1828

eccentric1832

case1833

originalist1835

cure1856

crotchet-monger1874

curiosity1874

crank1881

crackpot1883

faddist1883

schwärmer1884

hard case1892

finger1899

mad hatter1905

nut1908

numéro1924

screwball1933

wack1938

fruitcake1942

odd bod1942

oddball1943

ghoster1953

raver1959

kook1960

flake1968

woo-woo1972

zonky1972

wacko1977

headbanger1981

1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 242 Haters of God..the stile of some extravagants in nature.

1676 J. Glanvill Ess. iv. 20 The Extravagants among us may be really distracted in the Affairs of Religion, though their Brains are untouch'd in other Matters.

1678 Spanish Hist. ii. 147 Whereby it may be seen what the rage of these extravagants was against the Vice-Roy.

1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VII. ii. 18 The dear Extravagant takes a delight in oddnesses.

†b. One who exceeds the bounds of moderation in expenditure, expensive living, etc.; a wasteful person, a spendthrift. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun] > squanderer or prodigal

waster1352

spender1393

fool-large?c1425

neve1440

stroyc1440

strawer1460

scapethrifta1500

prodigal son (also daughter, child)1508

nephew1532

scatterer1535

stroy-good1540

prodigal1547

spend-all1553

dingthrift1566

stroy-all1573

scattergood1577

slip-thrift1579

waste-good1585

slide-thrifta1591

spendthrift1601

unthrifta1602

prodiga1605

spend-good1605

wastethrift1608

prodigal1609

lavisher1611

squanderer1611

decoctor1615

profuser1616

extravagant1745

dissipater1799

wastrel1887

squander-bug1943

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [noun] > spendthrift

spender1393

fool-large?c1425

neve1440

scapethrifta1500

nephew1532

bankrupt1533

scatterer1535

spend-all1553

dingthrift1566

gillian spend-all1573

scattergood1577

slip-thrift1579

waste-good1585

slide-thrifta1591

spendthrift1601

spend-good1605

wastethrift1608

extravagant1745

dissipater1799

1745 R. Dodsley Pain & Patience in Poems vi The wild extravagant, whose thoughtless hand, With lavish tasteless pride, commits expence.

a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George III (1859) II. 39 A new club which by the excess of play should draw all the young extravagants thither.

a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) i. i, in Wks. (1821) II. 16 Charles..that extravagant, that bankrupt in fortune and reputation.

1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 42 A good humoured sporting extravagant.

†4.

a. An extravagant act, statement, etc.; = extravagancy n. 3. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > instance of

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absurdism1815

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fandangle1880

bollock1919

1644 W. Laud Wks. (1854) IV. 55 He fell foul upon me again..as that I was the author of all the extravagants in the Government.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 107 Figments of mens brain, monsters of nature, devious extravagants, etc.

1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical xi. 148 Examine well this serious Extravagant..The Fool's Bawble he makes such a pother with, is his Probity.

†b. (See quots.). Obsolete. [Boorde's use may be transferred from i.]

ΚΠ

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe ii. Pref. f. i^v Bycause that I dyd..leaue oute many thynges in the fyrst boke... In this boke named the Extrauagantes I haue supplyed those matters.

1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art iv. To Rdr. As there were divers experiments that I could not conveniently..dispose in..order..I thought it would not bee amisse to call them by the names of Extravagants.

†c. (See quot. 1622). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 129 Certaine Merchants contracts..are called Extrauagants, because the manner either of buying or selling of commodities..is rare and but vsed in some places.

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单词	extravagant
释义	extravagantadj.n. /ɛkˈstravəɡənt/ Forms: Also 1500s, 1600s aphetic stravagant adj. and n. Etymology: In the special use A. 2, B. 1, directly < medieval Latin extrāvagant-em , present participle of extrāvagārī (or extrā vagārī ): see extravagate v. The wider use came late in 16th cent. from French extravagant , which appears first in 14th cent. The form stravagant adj. and n., < Italian, is somewhat earlier in our quots. Compare Italian estravagante, stravagante (15th cent.), Spanish estravagante. A. adj. †1. a. That wanders out of bounds; straying, roaming, vagrant. Obsolete exc. after Shakespeare. 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 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 135 At his [sc. the cock's] warning ..Th'extrauagant [1603 strauagant] and erring spirit hies To his confine. View more context for this quotation 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 93 Now dispersed into ample lakes, and again recollecting his extrauagant waters. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) i. i. 138 An extrauagant, and wheeling Stranger, Of here, and euery where. 1841 R. W. Emerson Hist. in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 27 Rare, extravagant spirits come by us at intervals. †b. Military. Of an officer: Keeping no fixed place; having a roving function. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [adjective] > with roving function extravagant1622 1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre ii. viii. 69 He [the Serjeant] hath in the body of the Company, no Raunge at all, but is extravagant, and going vp and downe to oversee all Raunges. 1672 T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline i. v. 13 The two other Corporals to be extravagant, that is to view and see each Soldier keep his place. 2. Canon Law. The distinctive epithet of certain papal constitutions. [The Latin adjective seems originally to have been applied casually to denote ‘stray’ decrees not codified or collected in the decretals. They were afterwards added to the decretals, but retained their customary designation, to distinguish them from the older portions of the collection.] ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > law > canon law > [adjective] > additional extravagant1387 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 285 A constitucioun þat is not i-putte in þe course of lawes is i-cleped a constitucioun extravagant. 1608 Bp. T. Morton Preamble Incounter 109 He citeth the Constitution extrauagant of Pope Bonifacius. 1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) Each title being devoted to one or more ‘extravagant’ Constitutions. †3. Spreading or projecting beyond bounds; straggling. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [adjective] > irregularly arranged straggling1604 extravagant1608 scattering1610 squanderinga1616 scambling1702 scragglinga1722 wandering1785 straggly1862 straggled1884 1608 B. Jonson Masque of Blacknesse in Characters Two Royall Masques 65 They [sc. the Masquers] were all seene, but in an extrauagant order. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 323 The prominency of this extravagant Tower. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 111 Trimming up such as you spare for Standards..from their extravagant Branches. 1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 64 Cutting the too thick, and extravagant Roots a little. †4. Widely divergent or discrepant (from, to); remote from, irrelevant or foreign to a purpose or subject. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > very different from extravagant1601 remote1603 1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 115 A position extrauagant from all learning. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence x. 337 Other languages, such as vnto ours are altogether strange and extrauagant. 1650 S. Clarke Marrow Eccl. Hist. (1654) i. 108 He never brake forth into reproaches extravagant from the cause. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 166 They were indeed the more knowing men, but their learning was extravagant to their Office. 1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 55 Whose Character..I deem not much extravagant here to insert. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. vi. iii. sig. Nn4^v Wondring to find our Customs so extravagant and differing from those of his Country. †5. Varying widely from what is usual or proper; unusual, abnormal, strange; unbecoming, unsuitable. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > not conforming to standard behaviour irregular1395 unformalc1449 informalc1475 disordered1561 monstrous1568 odd1577 irregulate1579 exorbitant1613 free-spirited1613 exorbitating1632 inconformable1633 extravagant1650 inconform1659 eccentric1685 unconformable1702 outrageous1778 unconventional1840 erratic1841 kinky1844 Bohemian1846 radical1869 Bohemic1874 nonconforming1899 hard case1904 jazz1917 offbeat1922 deviant1935 deviate1945 oddball1945 left field1951 way out1955 boho1958 non-conformant1960 sideways1969 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [adjective] > deviating from rule or standard > anomalous anomalc1525 heteroclital1593 heteroclite1598 anomalous1606 heteroclitic1632 anomalar1635 heteroclitous1648 extravagant1650 extraordinary1703 heterogeneous1760 heterogenous1760 rogue1952 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine v. viii. 157 Persons..treacherously slain, which occasioned their hasty, tumultuary, and extravagant interment. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 109 Those extravagant Phænomena, which we observed in the first Experiment of Torricellius. a1668 W. Davenant Masque in Wks. (1673) 383 In an extravagant posture stood a Tyger. 1689 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 586 Some..officers, are taken into custody for drinking extravagant healths, and speaking reflectingly of his majestie. 1689 Bp. G. Burnet Tracts I. 12 Lausanne is situated on three Hills..This extravagant situation of the Town. 1701 tr. J. Le Clerc Lives Primitive Fathers 56 A Garment which is not commonly seen, seems Extravagant, though it was Fashionable in former Times. 6. ‘Roving beyond just limits or prescribed methods’ (Johnson); exceeding the bounds of reason or propriety; excessive, irregular, fantastically absurd. Now with stronger sense: Astonishingly or flagrantly excessive or extreme. a. of persons. Now rare except with agent-noun or const. in. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [adjective] > specifically of persons unsufferablea1387 unmeasurablec1405 immoderatec1450 inordinatec1450 dissolutec1475 excessive1586 extravagant1600 painful1749 unforbearing1820 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Induct. sig. Biv Shall I be so extrauagant to thinke That happie judgements and composed spirits Will challenge me for taxing such as these? View more context for this quotation 1633 Durie in Presbyterian Rev. (1887) 305 Those y^t were so extrauagant as to maintaine it unlawfull [etc.]. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. iii. §1 For them to have been so extravagant in their accounts of themselves. 1705 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 2) I. iii. 264 Zedekiah..had..no Regard..for Virtue; and his Companions were altogether as impious and extravagant as himself. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 73 The extravagant panegyrist of various living characters. 1840 T. B. Macaulay Ranke's Hist. in Ess. (1854) II. 556/1 He [the enthusiast] may be vulgar, ignorant, visionary, extravagant. b. of dispositions, passions, actions, opinions, conditions, demands, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > other specific behaviour > [adjective] > extravagant mada1470 wild1515 extravagant1598 throughother1813 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree > excessive in degree unmeasurablea1398 dismeasurec1400 dismeasurable1477 dismeasured1483 over1494 endlya1513 intolerable1544 wide1574 overloading1576 unconscionable1576 meanless1587 powerable1588 hyperbolical1589 extravagant1598 grievous1632 flagrant1634 exorbitant1648 overbearinga1708 unbalanced1712 well-favoured1746 steep1856 thick1884 ripe1918 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 67 This is a gyft that I haue..a foolish extrauagant spirit, full of formes, figures, shapes [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle iii. 30 Your Father's in an extravagant rage. 1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 162. ¶3 There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in these great natural Genius's. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. iv. 234 It was impossible..that the Emperor would listen to these extravagant demands. 1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 123 A mind poisoned by extravagant opinions. 1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing iv. 204 The extravagant praise bestowed on the best pictures of the Greeks. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 164 Both had..extravagant whimsies about dress. 1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 300 It is not extravagant to suppose..that they had secret instructions. 7. Exceeding the bounds of economy or necessity in expenditure, mode of living, etc.; profuse, prodigal, wasteful. a. Of persons. (Const. of.) ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective] largea1225 fool-largec1325 costlewa1387 outragea1400 riotousc1405 sumptuousa1425 superfluea1425 prodigatec1429 profuse?a1475 lavishc1475 prodigalc1485 prodiga1492 prodigaleousa1500 superfluous1531 wasteful1538 costly?1555 prodigal1570 overlavish1573 squandering1589 lavishing1598 spenseful1600 expenseful1605 spendthrift1607 spendful1611 dingthrifty1615 impendious1623 expensive1628 unthriftya1631 spendthrifty1642 flush1703 extravagant1711 profligate1718 dispendious1727 wastry1791 wasterful1821 wastrife1822 prodigalish1857 high-rolling1890 wastrel1896 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [adjective] > extravagant or spendthrift (of persons) fool-largec1325 costlewa1387 costly?1555 improvident1589 spenseful1600 expenseful1605 spendthrift1607 spendful1611 dingthrifty1615 impendious1623 spendthrifty1642 expensive1650 extravagant1711 hand-to-mouth1748 spendy1911 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 243. ¶8 An extravagant Man..has nothing else to recommend him but a false Generosity. 1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 55 What need we prove extravagant of Time. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. ii. 39 His eldest son was careless and extravagant . View more context for this quotation 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar i. 6 The rich were extravagant, for life had ceased to have practical interest, except for its material pleasures. b. Of expense, interest, price, etc.: Exorbitant. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [adjective] high1542 strong1599 rank1604 exorbitant1670 extravagant1707 stiff1824 sky-high1829 steep1856 stratospherical1936 1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 165 His Lordship gave an extravagant interest of 20 per cent. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 108 The Price..was to us indeed extravagant, tho' to them moderate. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation iv. 106 An extravagant price to pay for the encouragement of sacred learning. B. n. 1. Canon Law. An ‘extravagant’ constitution: see A. 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > law > canon law > [noun] > ecclesiastical or papal decrees forming part of > constitution not codified in extravagant1502 extravagantine1549 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. viii. sig. t.ii Those the whiche cutte..the body of ony deed persone..ben acursyd..by y^e extrauagant of Bonyface. a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. ii. §2 The Canon law, to which the Canonist will stand..are the Decretall letters, and all the extravagants. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 82 Gratian's decree, Gregory's decretals, the sixth decretal, the Clementine constitutions, and the extravagants of John and his successors, form the..body of the Roman canon law. 1886 W. Stubbs 17 Lect. Study Hist. xiii. 306 The Extravagants as they were called, that is the authoritative sentences of the Popes which were not yet codified. †2. One who strays or wanders from a place; a vagrant, wanderer. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer striker1393 roamerc1400 wandererc1440 whirlerc1440 gangrela1450 fluttererc1450 straggler1530 gadlinga1542 ranger1560 rover1568 fugitive1570 rangler1575 fleeter1581 extravagant1583 scatterling1590 vagranta1592 rambler1624 erratic1669 stravaiger1821 multivagant1895 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Ov^v May you as rogues, extrauagantes, and straglers from the Heauenlye Country be arrested of..Christ Iesus. 1613 T. Adams White Deuil 26 I speake to you setled Citizens, not extrauagants. 1630–50 W. Bradford Hist. Plymouth Plant. ii. (1856) 187 Ordinarie officers are bound cheefly to their flocks..and are not to be extravagants. figurative.1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 97 [They] are censurable for extravagants from their Commission. †3. a. One who does not keep within ordinary or reasonable limits; an exceptional or eccentric person; a fanatic. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity > person fantastical1589 fantastic1598 earwig brain1599 extravagant1627 fanatic1644 energumen1660 original1675 toy-pate1702 gig1777 quiz1780 quoz?1780 rum touch1800 crotcheteer1815 pistol1828 eccentric1832 case1833 originalist1835 cure1856 crotchet-monger1874 curiosity1874 crank1881 crackpot1883 faddist1883 schwärmer1884 hard case1892 finger1899 mad hatter1905 nut1908 numéro1924 screwball1933 wack1938 fruitcake1942 odd bod1942 oddball1943 ghoster1953 raver1959 kook1960 flake1968 woo-woo1972 zonky1972 wacko1977 headbanger1981 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 242 Haters of God..the stile of some extravagants in nature. 1676 J. Glanvill Ess. iv. 20 The Extravagants among us may be really distracted in the Affairs of Religion, though their Brains are untouch'd in other Matters. 1678 Spanish Hist. ii. 147 Whereby it may be seen what the rage of these extravagants was against the Vice-Roy. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VII. ii. 18 The dear Extravagant takes a delight in oddnesses. †b. One who exceeds the bounds of moderation in expenditure, expensive living, etc.; a wasteful person, a spendthrift. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun] > squanderer or prodigal waster1352 spender1393 fool-large?c1425 neve1440 stroyc1440 strawer1460 scapethrifta1500 prodigal son (also daughter, child)1508 nephew1532 scatterer1535 stroy-good1540 prodigal1547 spend-all1553 dingthrift1566 stroy-all1573 scattergood1577 slip-thrift1579 waste-good1585 slide-thrifta1591 spendthrift1601 unthrifta1602 prodiga1605 spend-good1605 wastethrift1608 prodigal1609 lavisher1611 squanderer1611 decoctor1615 profuser1616 extravagant1745 dissipater1799 wastrel1887 squander-bug1943 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [noun] > spendthrift spender1393 fool-large?c1425 neve1440 scapethrifta1500 nephew1532 bankrupt1533 scatterer1535 spend-all1553 dingthrift1566 gillian spend-all1573 scattergood1577 slip-thrift1579 waste-good1585 slide-thrifta1591 spendthrift1601 spend-good1605 wastethrift1608 extravagant1745 dissipater1799 1745 R. Dodsley Pain & Patience in Poems vi The wild extravagant, whose thoughtless hand, With lavish tasteless pride, commits expence. a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George III (1859) II. 39 A new club which by the excess of play should draw all the young extravagants thither. a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) i. i, in Wks. (1821) II. 16 Charles..that extravagant, that bankrupt in fortune and reputation. 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 42 A good humoured sporting extravagant. †4. a. An extravagant act, statement, etc.; = extravagancy n. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > instance of follyc1300 absurditya1525 mumpsimus1531 trim-tram1533 foppery1546 ridicle1570 fangle1583 delirium1599 monstruosity1601 adox1606 absurd1610 extravagancy1625 incongruitya1626 monstrosity1639 extravagant1644 extravagance1650 ridiculea1658 fadoodlea1670 ridiculous1674 irrationalitya1680 ridiculosity1773 whimsy-whamsy1807 absurdism1815 nonsensity1834 nonsensical1842 nonsensicalitya1850 fandango1856 fandangle1880 bollock1919 1644 W. Laud Wks. (1854) IV. 55 He fell foul upon me again..as that I was the author of all the extravagants in the Government. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 107 Figments of mens brain, monsters of nature, devious extravagants, etc. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical xi. 148 Examine well this serious Extravagant..The Fool's Bawble he makes such a pother with, is his Probity. †b. (See quots.). Obsolete. [Boorde's use may be transferred from i.] ΚΠ 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe ii. Pref. f. i^v Bycause that I dyd..leaue oute many thynges in the fyrst boke... In this boke named the Extrauagantes I haue supplyed those matters. 1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art iv. To Rdr. As there were divers experiments that I could not conveniently..dispose in..order..I thought it would not bee amisse to call them by the names of Extravagants. †c. (See quot. 1622). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 129 Certaine Merchants contracts..are called Extrauagants, because the manner either of buying or selling of commodities..is rare and but vsed in some places. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † extravagantv. Etymology: < extravagant adj. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. = extravagate v. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (intransitive)] > go beyond bounds > go beyond proper sphere eccentricate1643 extravagant1656 extravagec1690 1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 21 To keep the so chosen within their said bounds, that they extravagant not. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.n.1387v.1656
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extravagantadj.n.

† extravagantv.