evagation
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French évagation, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin evagatio, from evagari (“to wander forth”). See also vagary.
Noun
evagation (plural evagations)
- A wandering about; excursion; a roving.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “evagation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)