† vagationn.
Obsolete.
The action of wandering, straying, or departing from the proper or regular course; an instance or occasion of this; a wandering, rambling, roaming; an aberration. In literal and figurative use.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [noun] > moving without fixed course
vagationc1340
roving?1520
straying1548
wandering1827
milling1924
minnow-twisting1935
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > straying or going astray
vagationc1340
straya1400
outstray?a1425
will gate1440
out-way going1532
straying1548
out-straying1589
aberrationa1594
estraying1598
taveringa1599
straggling1601
wandering1711
c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. (1866) 14 Whene þe mynde es stablede sadely with-owtten changynge and vagacyone in Godd.
?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) iii. xxvii. 219 Chase fro myn hert all maner darkenes, stablysshe the great vagacions of my mynde that I suffre.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) i. 42 For this vagacion is caused of dulnes, and of heuynes of harte.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xiii. 87 Ane of his familiar frendis inquyrit hym of the cause of his inconstant vagations.
1597 G. Harvey Trimming T. Nashe in Wks. (1885) III. 53 Neuerthelesse can I accuse you of lazines; for all this time of your vagation, with you I thinke the Signe hath been in Pisces.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 291 Socrates offended at the bold and blind vagations of men in their disputations about the measures of the Sunne.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. ii. 100 By this so curious and exact a Libration,..unseemly Contortions, and..Vagations of the Eye are prevented.
1715 W. Derham Astro-theol. iv. v. 94 I have my self observed a greater vagation in the third satellite.
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