| 释义 |
pervagate, v.|ˈpɜːvəgeɪt|
[f. L. pervagāt-, ppl. stem of pervagārī to wander about, f. per- 1 + vagārī to wander.]
trans. To wander through.
1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. I. ii. 65 Lord Waynflete..was in the habit of pervagating the neighbourhood. a1876― Th. in Gard. (1880) I. 42 To lose myself in it, to pervagate it, to find out its beauties without guidance.
So pervaˈgation, wandering about.
1656Blount Glossogr., Pervagation, a straying up and down, a wandring through or about. 1876M. Collins Midnight to Midn. III. xi. 187 ‘The retort’, said Albany, stopping in his polar bear pervagation, ‘would be in the words of an old proverb.’ |