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† vacabond Obs.
Forms: α. 5–6 vacabound(e, 5 wayka-). β. 5–6 vacabund(e. γ. 5–6 vacabond(e, 6 vaco-, vaka-). δ. 6 vacabo(u)n, wacabone.
[a. OF. vacabonde (vacquabonde, vaccabon), app. an alteration of vagabond(e vagabond under the influence of L. vacāre (F. vaquer) to be unoccupied or idle.
The form survives in northern F. dialects, and in the 17th century Chifflet gives vacabond as the pron. of vagabond (Littré). In Anglo-L. of the 15–16th cent. vacabundus occurs in place of vagabundus.]
1. A person having no settled means of living or no fixed home; a vagabond.
α1404in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 37 Al men of the forsaede shirs exepte fowre or five gentilmen & a fewe vacaboundis, woldin faene cum to pees. 1472Presentments of Juries in Surtees Misc. (1890) 24 John Bek is a vacabound. 1483Ibid. 28 One Wrodyngton, a waykabound. 1530–1Act 22 Hen. VIII, c. 12 It shall be leful to the constables..to arest the sayde vacaboundes and ydell persones. 1578Whetstone Promos & Cass. ii. iv. i, Fetche me in all ydle vacaboundes.
β1453Rolls of Parlt. V. 270/1 Thomas Watkynson..Yoman and Robert Withes late of Salley in the shire of York Vacabunde. 1495Coventry Leet Bk. 568 All maner vacabundes & beggers myghty in body within þis Citie. 1530Palsgr. 183 Vngz piegz, a payre of stockes to punysshe vacabundes. 1552Nottingham Rec. IV. 103 Any vacabunde, suspect person, or nowghty people. 1584Mirr. Mag. 16 b, He commaunded, that vnto a nomber of yong diseased vacabunds, there shuld be ministred a thin Diet, an excessiue labor, and cleanly lodging.
γ1472Presentments of Juries in Surtees Misc. (1890) 24 Thomas Dransfeld..liffez as a vacabond. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xxviii. 85 There was no begger, vacabonde, nor rybault..but by grete flockys they came. 1563in Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 303 Beggers or vakabondes do come into the Cytye. 1588Greene Perimedes Wks. (Grosart) VII. 39 Hast thou these fourteen yeeres gone as a vacabonde about the world vnknowen and despised?
δ1556Nottingham Rec. (1889) IV. 113 He dothe harber wacabones. 1567Harman Caveat 19 Vagarantes and sturdy vacabons. 1571R. Edwards Damon & Pithias E iij b, Betten with a codgell like a Slaue, a Vacaboun, or a lasie Lubber.
2. attrib. or as adj. (Cf. vagabond a.)
1538Elyot, Errabundus, moche wanderynge, or vacabunde. 1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §190 The true beginning of the Frenchmen was by a vacabunde captayne named Marcomyrus. 1552Huloet, Vacabund parson, erro. 1591Savile Tacitus, Hist. ii. viii. 57 Adjoining vnto him certaine fugitiue and beggerly vacabond persons. |