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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wandering; a roving about.
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- noun obsolete The act of
wandering ,straying , or departing from the expected or regular course; an instance or occasion of this; a wandering; arambling ; aroaming ; anaberration .
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ruzuzu commented on the word vagation
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January 18, 2011
biocon commented on the word vagation
This word is not obsolete.
Cook, Adrian Gaylon. 2012. The Open Ornithology Journal 5: 18-25.
Ecuadorian and Peruvian records manifest that P. l. ardens is principally a subtropical taxon of mid elevations ..., which visits the high sierra in some parts of Peru, and makes vagations into lowlands.
Sayers, Dorothy L. 1936. Gaudy Night, page 60.
But the Proctor’s bull-dogs, who had been having a lively time with the tree-climbers in St. Giles, and were now out for blood, had come through the archway at a smart trot, and seeing a young gentleman not only engaged in nocturnal vagation without his gown but actually embracing a female ... leapt gleefully upon him, as upon a lawful prey.
Merriman, Mansfield. 1920. American Civil Engineers' Handbook, page 1108 (Section 9).
With given limits of mass variation, the vagation of paths will lie within a zone of certain width. Thus a river traversing a homogeneous soil will form a bed whose width and depth will be largely determined by the variation in volume, being wider and shoaler as the vagation of the hydraulic axis is greater; narrower and deeper as the volume becomes constant and the vagation of the hydraulic becomes less.
July 19, 2012