单词 | vagary |
释义 | vagaryn. 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > instance of rangec1450 rovec1550 vagary1577 ramble1639 roam1666 vagrancy1763 wander1843 peramble1933 bimble1980 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iii. f. 10v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The Irishe enemyes espying, that the Citizens were accustomed to fetche such odde vagaries,..they..layde in sundry places for their comming. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 23 Thee gates vncloased they skud with a liuely vagare. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. i. 19 These haue often vagaries ouer the deserts vnto the prouince of Tedgear. c1613 Minute Acct. People of Anglesea (1860) 40 To entice his neighbours wifes..to leave their husbands..and to follow him by turns, into other countreys, and after a long vagare, to return again. 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects i. v. 12 A hot Sun-shine..will quickly prompt them out of their Hives to take a short vagary. 1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra iii. ii. 12 The like did Dinah, when she made a needless Vagary to see the Daughters of the Land. 1826 W. E. Andrews Crit. & Hist. Rev. Fox's Bk. Martyrs II. 413 Whether..it is likely that such a person should be permitted to make a walking vagary throughout all London. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [verb (intransitive)] > be or become restive to play his vagary1566 to take (also nab) (the) rust1785 flisk1786 strivea1824 1566 T. Blundeville Arte of Rydynge (rev. ed.) i. xiii. f. 15, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe If he wyl then play his vagary, beat him forwith with your wande. c. An irregular course or distribution. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > irregular arrangement vagary1923 1923 World's Work May 566/1 Huster's attention was arrested by the uniformity in the course and distribution of nerves in comparison with the vagary of blood-vessels. ΘΚΠ 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 1572 R. Harrison in tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes To Rdr. His hystories seeme not idle tales, or impertinent vagaries, but very truethes. 1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 67 Countenauncinge oute the matter ether with tunge or penne withoute the same discoursinge vagaries. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism Apol. 15 When ever he was at a loss, that the people might not perceive it, he presently would fall into a wordy vagary. 1681 R. Baxter Answer to Mr. Dodwell iv. 54 You must talk at other rates than you have done in your tedious fallacious Vagaries. 1762 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 451 Mr. Beckford..had his vagaries as usual, and gave the House a little prelude of what they were to expect. 3. a. A departure or straying from the ordered, regular, or usual course of conduct, decorum, or propriety; a frolic or prank, esp. one of a freakish nature. Now rare or Obsolete (passing into sense 4). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] > a frolic oliprancec1390 ragerya1393 vague1523 rex1566 friskin1570 gambol1573 reak1573 prank1576 vagary1588 whirligig1589 caper1592 prinkum-prankum1596 firk1611 frolica1635 carryings-on1663 ramp1696 romp1713 freak1724 scheme1758 rig1782 lark1811 escapade1814 gammock1819 gambade1821 enfantillage1827 game1828 shines1830 rollick1834 rusty1835 high jinksa1845 escapado1849 shenanigan1855 rum-tum1876 panta1901 gas1914 1588 G. Babington Profitable Expos. Lords Prayer vi. 610 A short vagare..layde a grinding, a griefe vpon his conscience during life. 1593 B. Barnes Parthenophil & Parthenophe 4 I will bee His bale, for this offence, & if he make An other such vagare, take of mee A pawne. 1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. Dv Hee that might doe well and would not, when hee wanteth shalbe unpittied.., then shall you heare of your olde vagaries. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 614 Strait they chang'd thir minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell, As they would dance. View more context for this quotation 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §96 Would your Son engage in some Frolic, or take a Vagary, were it not..better he should do it with, than without your Knowledge? 1715 J. Gay What d'ye call It i. iv. 18 YE Goblins and Fairys,..With Frisks and Vagarys. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Vagaries, frolicks, wild rambles. a1845 R. H. Barham House-warming!! in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 291 That should she incline to play such a vagary..She could turn a knight into a waggon of hay. 1862 C. Stretton Mem. Chequered Life II. 100 I could not sleep: I was too much amused at the vagaries of my new acquaintances [sc. rats], and kept watching them. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] rampinga1425 daffing1535 May game1571 horseplay1590 hoiting1594 wantonizing1598 roguery1611 romperinga1625 hoity-toity1668 frolicking1676 frolic1677 romping1694 wantoning1701 vagary1791 skylarking1809 larking1813 rollicking1823 high-jinking1891 shenaniganning1924 grab-ass1948 mollocking1959 bants2008 1791 J. Wolcot Rights of Kings in Wks. (1812) II. 401 Here—there, Up, down, she dances it; now far, now near, In mad and riotous vagary. 4. a. A capricious, fantastic, or eccentric action or piece of conduct. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim > capricious action conceitc1520 giddiness1593 wild-goose race1594 wild goose chase1597 tricka1616 vagary1711 cantrip1719 quipa1822 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 260. ⁋1 The Vagaries of a Child are not more ridiculous than the Circumstances which are heaped up in my Memory. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xxi. 160 Not having so great a fortune to support vagaries, [she] would have shone..in Italy. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. vi. 86/1 A noble natural Courtesy shines through him, beautifying his vagaries. 1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism iv. 409 Ignorance and vanity once unbridled knew no limit to the vagaries..into which they ran. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxxvi. 150 The sentiment of the nation at large..acts but slowly in restraining the vagaries..of one particular State. b. A caprice or trick of fortune, fancy, the brain, a malady, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > fortune or luck > caprice or trick of fortune vagary1717 1717 J. Dennis Remarks Pope's Transl. Homer Pref. sig. A A vagary of fortune who is sometimes pleased to be frolicsome. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 26 The vagaries of the perspective, originating in such an arrangement, were rather amusing. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 17 I must yet notice another and a peculiar vagary of his malady. 1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. i. iv. 123 To follow the vagaries of fashion. 5. An erratic play of fancy; a fantastic, eccentric, or extravagant idea or notion. (Cf. 2.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] phantoma1375 fantasyc1440 conceitc1450 fancy1471 crotchet1573 whim-wham1580 vision1592 reverie1602 whimsy1607 windmill1612 brainworm1617 maggota1625 vapour1631 flama1637 fantastic1641 idea1660 whim1697 rockstaff1729 whigmaleery1730 vagary1753 freak1785 whimsy-whamsy1807 crankum1822 whimmery1837 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim fantasya1450 wantonness1531 humour1533 worm?a1534 will1542 toy?1545 whey-worm1548 wild worm1548 freak1563 crotchet1573 fancy1579 whim-wham1580 whirligig1589 caper1592 megrim1593 spleen1594 kicksey-winsey1599 fegary1600 humorousness1604 curiosity1605 conundrum1607 whimsy1607 windmill1612 buzza1616 capriccioa1616 quirka1616 flama1625 maggota1625 fantasticality1631 capruch1634 gimcrack1639 whimseycado1654 caprich1656 excursion1662 frisk1665 caprice1673 fita1680 grub1681 fantasque1697 whim1697 frolic1711 flight1717 whigmaleery1730 vagary1753 maddock1787 kink1803 fizgig1824 fad1834 whimmery1837 fantod1839 brain crack1853 whimsy-whamsy1871 tic1896 tick1900 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxxii. 216 These ideal vagaries, which, for the time, realize pain or pleasure to us. 1771 T. Gray Let. in Corr. (1971) III. 1185 But by all means curb these vagaries & wandering imaginations. a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) I. 8 I alone, A wayward youth, misled by Fancy's vagaries, Remain'd unsettled. 1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith i. §2. 77 Every system that would land in such a conclusion is a mere logical vagary. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 270 (note) But it is worse than useless to record the vagaries of Apocalyptic interpretation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † vagaryv. Obsolete. intransitive. To wander or roam. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander wharvec890 woreOE wandera1000 rengec1230 wagc1325 roamc1330 errc1374 raikc1390 ravec1390 rumblec1400 rollc1405 railc1425 roit1440 waverc1440 rangea1450 rove1481 to-waver1487 vaguea1525 evague1533 rangle1567 to go a-strayinga1586 vagary1598 divagate1599 obambulate1614 vagitate1614 ramble1615 divage1623 pererrate1623 squander1630 peramble1632 rink1710 ratch1801 browse1803 vagrate1807 bum1857 piroot1858 scamander1864 truck1864 bat1867 vagrant1886 float1901 vagulate1918 pissant1945 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Vagare,..to vagarie, or range, to straie abroade. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 17 The marishes and lower grounds lying vpon the three riuers that vagary vp to her. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vaucrer, to raunge, roame, vagarie, wander, idle it vp and downe. 1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 60 Though he might decline Law, yet he vagari'd not therefrom. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1257 To vagary, vagari, palari. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1566v.1598 |
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