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vagrantly, adv.|ˈveɪgrəntlɪ|
Also 6 vagrauntlie.
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
As a vagrant; in a vagrant or wandering manner; † irrelevantly.
1547Act 1 Edw. VI, c. 3 §6 We haue taken this bearer I. K. vagrauntlie,..going loytering idellie abowt. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 634 The contrary..being barely and nakedly affirmed of the Iesuites, and that most vagrantly, and from the purpose. 1604N. D. 3rd Pt. Three Conversions of Eng. 93 Who would neither haue lands..nor any certaine seats or habitation, but went abroade vagrantly. 1736Ainsworth Lat. Dict., Vage, wandringly, scatteringly, vagrantly. 1847Webster, Vagrantly, in a wandering, unsettled manner. 1893Dispatch (Columbus) 20 April, Come with me then, vagrantly, into a few of these lovely old home-spots of rural England. |