vagancy

English

Etymology

From Latin vagans, present participle of vagor. See vagantes.

Noun

vagancy (plural vagancies)

1. (obsolete) A wandering; vagrancy.
   • 1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 203:

     Yet is it not to be conceiv'd that thoſe eternal Effluences of Sanctity and Love in the glorified Saints, ſhould by this means be confin'd and cloy'd with repetition of that which is preſcrib'd, but that our happineſs may orb it ſelf into a thouſand vagancies of glory and delight, […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “vagancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)