单词 | pervagation |
释义 | † pervagationn. Obsolete. rare. The action of wandering through or about. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering wandering1362 roamingc1390 roving?1520 error1594 rangling1594 wanderment1597 rambling1622 rolling1624 vagancy1641 roverya1653 pervagation1656 oberration1658 vagrancya1677 stravaiging1825 scamander1873 outwandering1880 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Pervagation, a straying up and down, a wandring through or about. 1794 R. Heron New Gen. Hist. Scotl. I. p. xxix The pervagation of all terrestrial space..will discover to us no other country, no other people, from which it is profitable to derive so much of knowledge. 1876 M. Collins From Midnight to Midnight III. xi. 187 ‘The retort’, said Albany, stopping in his polar bear pervagation, ‘would be in the words of an old proverb.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < |
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