1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. v. f. 107/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I For their idle roging about the countrie, the law ordeineth this maner of correction.

c1585 R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 3 Beyng children of Death, euen for smaller Theftes, Felonyes, Roginges, and Wanderinges.

1631 P. Heylyn Hist. St. George 106 Here..he left off his roaguing, and began his Villanies.

1657 W. Sheppard Englands Balme 28 The common offences of Swearing, Drunkenness,..Vagrancy or Roguing.

1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune ii. i. 25 Here's the Ring you sent a Roguing.

1875 E. Dowden Shakespere: his Mind & Art vii. 377 No person of spirit can read A Winter's Tale without feeling..an impatience to be off for once on an adventure of roving and rogueing with Autolycus.

1922 C. T. Winchester Old Castle 106 The warmth of spring and the song of birds stirs in him [sc. Autolycus] an instinct for roving and roguing.

a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) iii. i. sig. G3 This was thy Rouging, For thou wert ever whispering: fye upon thee.

1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse iii. 50 You'll never leave Roguing, I see that.

1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example ii. ii You are going a rogueing.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 295 Nothing else but the Hopes of going a Roguing, brought him to do it.

1760 A. Murphy Way to keep Him i. 10 And then, when he's going a roguing, smiles impudently in your Face, and, ‘My Dear, divert yourself, I'm just going to kill half an Hour at the Chocolate-House.’

1898 E. Brooke Confession of Stephen Whapshare 44 Ashley got what they're getten by railways and roguing.

1982 J. Seabrook Unemployment 115 If you want things, you have to go roguing.

2005 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 11 June 66 He created a bunch of rogues around him, some of whom couldn't escape jail as a result of their roguing.

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 684 All those plants that have not the leaves beautifully curled should be pulled up, an operation technically called roguing.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species i. 34 The destruction of horses under a certain size was ordered, and this may be compared to the ‘roguing’ of plants by nurserymen.

1968 Punch 18 Sept. 410/3 Any plants not true to type are removed by systematic ‘roguing’, which may account for a further ton per acre.

1992 W. T. Parsons & E. G. Cuthbertson Noxious Weeds Austral. 372/1 Roguing, mowing, tilling and flaming are useful methods of control, but all require regular follow-up treatment.

1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea i. f. 2 Preserue my Iasons lyfe, but yet let hym be bayted oute A mychyng, rogyng, runagate, in forren townes aboute.

1581 M. Hanmer Iesuites Banner c j b I woulde..that you..sufred the roging Jesuites beyond the seas, to performe your vowes.

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. v. sig. E5 Faire age! When..roguing vertue brings a man defame.

a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 75 You are found in that penury, that the rouing and roging stagers are.

1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. ii. 26 This base roguing and cozening Empiricke.

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 53 Perhaps some roguing Boy that managed the Puppets, turned the City wrong.

1913 A. J. Heil Cornucopia 45 Parnassus hath no brood at all Like that which lords the stony street of Wall; Where Jews and roguing gentiles never work—The curse of country—shame of old New York!

1967 A. L. Lloyd Folk Song in Eng. iv. 178 The roguing ballad-singers.