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单词 mundivagant
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mundivagantadj.

Brit. /mʌnˈdɪvəɡ(ə)nt/, U.S. /mənˈdɪvəɡ(ə)nt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin mundivagus , -ant suffix1.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin mundivagus (in a late 6th-cent. inscription; < classical Latin mundus world (see mundane adj.) + vagant- , vagāns , present participle of vagārī to roam: see vagant adj.) + -ant suffix1.
That roams around the world.
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Mundivagant, wandring through the world.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Mundivigant, wandering through the world.]
1803 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 19/1 A Mundivagant mendicant, nay, a cosmopolite, who was..clad in hermetical weeds.
1826 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy II. 247 His wares..not unlikely are as efficacious as the nostrums of the less Mundivagant professors of patent empiricism.
1917 J. B. Cabell Cream of Jest iii. vi. 130 They saw the cities and manners of many men, to an extent undreamed-of by Ithaca's mundivagant king.
1943 Atlanta Constit. 7 June 7/1 (advt.) The Highly Mundivagant Mr. Ralph McGill... It's hard to put your finger always on the physical whereabouts of Ralph McGill.
1998 Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 36 85/2 This species is one of a number of mundivagant taxa the distribution of which is associated with human activities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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