voyagern.

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 33 His legges were Royde like a voyager that had alle the day to fore, haue voiaged or goon a Iourney.

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 616/1 Them coumpte we stylle for vyagers and pylgrimes..towarde the same place..that we walke.

1686 Bp. G. Burnet Some Lett. conc. Switzerland i. 3 It may look like a presumptuous affectation to be reckoned among Voyagers, if he attempts to say any thing upon so short a ramble, and concerning places so much visited, and by consequence so well known.

1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 20 The Patache is a vehicle that the traveller..will frequently have recourse to. Its voyagers are a grade lower in society than those of the diligence.

1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 73 Such a voyager, if it has ever been his hap to turn his feet to Orleans.

1885 Sat. Rev. 23 Oct. 532/2 Let any student of life..go to a terminus when a train has come in, and watch the faces of the voyagers as they battle for ‘their things’.

c1500 Melusine (1895) 362 The kyng vnderstod by the report of som knightes vyageours, that there was in the grete Armanye a Castel.

1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xix. 8 Fenton next, and Iackman.., Both Voyagers, that were with famous Forbosher [sic].

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 101 You go on to preferre my Captivity in this Fleet to that of a voyager at sea.

1656 A. Cowley Resurrection in Pindaric Odes i Not Winds to Voyagers at Sea, Nor Showers to Earth more necessary be,..Than Verse to Virtue.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 34. ⁋5 It is usual with young Voyagers, as soon as they land upon a Shore, to begin their Accounts of the Nature of the People.

1783 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 2 529 Voyagers..are much divided in their accounts of the natives.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxxxi. 105 Long shall the voyager, with th' Ionian blast, Hail the bright clime of battle and of song.

1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 1 The Arctic voyagers have seen King Winter on his throne.

1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 119 The Sea Lion of voyagers in the southern seas.

1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 317 She prays for the little Infant Voyager, That he may so pass the Waves of this Troublesom World as finally to come to the Land of Everlasting Life.

1819 P. B. Shelley Let. 17 Nov. (1964) II. 158 Your boat will be to the Ocean of Water what this earth is to the Ocean of æther—a prosperous & swift voyager.

1826 Mechanics' Mag. 6 286/2 In this region the voyager [in a balloon] sailed till half-past nine o'clock.

1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 45 Insect lover of the sun,..Sailor of the atmosphere,..Voyager of light and noon.

1890 Spectator 7 June 793/1 This rapid voyager [the dragon-fly] passes over you, proceeds beyond you.., then turns [etc.].