单词 | noctivagation |
释义 | noctivagationn. Now historical. The action of wandering or roaming about at night, esp. as a punishable offence. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wandering at night noctivagation1632 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wandering at night > as an unlawful practice noctivagation1632 noctivagating1633 1632 S. Marmion Hollands Leaguer iv. iii No farther than to prison, where you shall pay But forty shillings for noctivagation. 1637 W. Laud Wks. (1853) V. 164 You shall do well to have a care of noctivagation and other disorders. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xv. 253 When upon the entrance of his adventures this vertigo of noctivagation, and watching his Armes, seized him. 1678 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 403 The townsmen acknowledge 6s. 8d. to be paid for noctivagation,..but not 40s. 1972 W. A. Pantin Oxf. Life v. 62 Visiting the houses and shops of townsmen..during the daytime—at night this became the more heinous offence of noctivagation. 1997 N. Tyacke Hist. Univ. Oxf. IV. 109 All became involved in town-gown disputes, and indeed so assiduous was the Duke of Buckingham in a dispute over noctivagation in 1677–8 that the council felt the need to bestow a grovelling accolade. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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