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单词 vagary
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vagaryn.

Brit. /ˈveɪɡ(ə)ri/, /vəˈɡɛːri/, U.S. /ˈveɪɡəri/, /vəˈɡɛri/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s vagare, 1500s vagarie.
Etymology: probably < Latin vagārī (Italian vagare ) to wander. Compare fegary n.
1.
a. A wandering or devious journey or tour; a roaming about or abroad; an excursion, ramble, stroll. Obsolete.Frequently in the 17th cent., chiefly in verbal phrases as to fetch, make, or take a vagary.
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.
figurative and in extended use.a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §225 237 Torridge, after a long vagary, making many meanders, emptieth itself in the..sea.1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 325 Our hearts are soon gone away from the duty in hand, and taken a vegary to the furthest part of the World.1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xxii. 161 My aunt Dinah and the coachman..led us a vagary some millions of miles into the very heart of the planetary system.
b. to play his vagary, of a horse, to leave or refuse to follow the proper or desired course. Obsolete. rare.
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.
2. A wandering in speech or writing; a rambling from the subject under consideration; a digression or divagation. Obsolete (passing into sense 5).
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.
figurative.1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. i. 42 Let us hear what vagaries fancy has been playing in your mind.
b. Without article: Frolic, gambolling. Obsolete.
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.

Etymology: Compare vagary n.
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).
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