Vagant

Extra-vagant certainly may be construed out of bounds; we need no ghost with a mouthful of Syntax to tell us that; but Shakspeare had too much taste to adopt such an absurd Latinism. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extra-vagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limits of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. ❋ Unknown (1854)

Isti per multos libros vagant legentes assidue: nimirum similles fatuis illis, qui in urbe cicumeunt domos singulas, et earum picturas dissutis malis contuentur: sicque curiositate trahuntur, &c. ❋ Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1811)

As possessing the advantages of education, talents, and knowledge of mankind, in a degree which places him much above the level of those, who have succeeded him in the Methodist Ministry, he may well be supposed not to have propounded the opinions of the sect in a shape more extra - vagant than that, in which they are embraced by his followers. ❋ William Magee (1812)

What, Mr. Twineall, have you new modes, new falhions for words too in England, as well as for dreffes? — and are you equally ex - tra/vagant in their adoption?. ❋ Unknown (1787)

Now we are in Charity to prefame, that the Author never intended this Extra - vagant Inftance for a Prefident, and therefore the Imperfection of the Fable, muft be help'd out by tome Pertinent Application of it in an In - frructive Moral. ❋ Unknown (1692)

The News was no fooner brought to the Landlord, but he brake out into This Reflexion upon it: This comes, fays he, ofTranJ 'planting an OldTree, to Gratifie an Extra - vagant ❋ Unknown (1692)

-- 1. without, or not within; 2. outwards; 3. beyond; 4. for ex, out of: as, 1. extra-provincial, without the province; 2. extra-mission, sending out or onwards; 3. extra-ordinary, beyond ordinary; 4. extra-vagant, wandering beyond just limits. ❋ Unknown (1861)

Thus an early bishop, perhaps, thought it proper to repeat a certain form, in a particular kind of shoes or slippers; another fancied, it would be very de - cent, if such a part of public devotions were performed with a mitre on his head and a cro - sier in his hand: to this another added an extra - vagant garb, which, he conceived, would allude very aptly to such and such mysteries; till by degrees, the whole ofEce degenerated into empty and lamentable pageantry. ❋ Unknown (1794)