vagrantise

English

Verb

vagrantise (third-person singular simple present vagrantises, present participle vagrantising, simple past and past participle vagrantised)

1. Alternative form of vagrantize
   • 1842 January 13, “(untitled)”, in The Musical World, volume 17, number 2, page 9:

     It is utterly impossible for artists, either vocal or instrumental, to do themselves justice in these harum-scarum vagrantising peregrinations—no time is afforded for essential regular practice or preparation, the excitement of one performance necessarily produces reaction in the next--strange places and associates reduce their certain effects to matters of chance -- weariness produces languor and indifference, and they finally gain a contempt for the very persons who receive their efforts with indulgence.

   • 1877 January 20, J.T. Campion, “Willy Lee; or, A Name Written On Water”, in The Shamrock, volume 14, number 536, page 255:

     for, all the world knows, or ought to know the old over-growh and moth-eaten axiom that no spiritual visitor vagrantising upon the earth, can presume to attempt the passage of the liquid element in its onward march to the ocean—but as Macduff said to Macbeth —"despair thy charm!"

   • 1906, Alexander Maclaren, Leaves from the tree of life, page 185:

     No ; that is slavery ; but " I will walk at liberty, for I keep Thy precepts " ; and I do not want to go vagrantising at large, but limit myself thankfully to the way which Thou dost mark out.