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vagabondical en · ADJ

Etymology

From vagabond + -ical.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Pertaining to or having the characteristics of a vagabond.
   • As, so stand bolt upright, to lie flat upon the ground, to turn round as a ring holding their tails in their teeth, to beg for their meat; and sundry such properties, which they learn of their vagabondical masters, whose instruments they are to gather gain withal in city, country, town, and village. 1895, English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature:
   • He was an intricate prognosticator of firmamental eclipses, and vaticinated future occurrents by the mysterious influences of the sublime stars and vagabondical planets; generated he was by the inhuman conjunction of an incubus; and was immur'd alive in a cave by the pre-eminent magic of the Lady of the Lake. 1874, William Hugh Logan, Dramatists of the Restoration - Volume 1, page 43:
   • Plain Joe Haynes, the learned Doctor Haynes , or the dignified Count Haynes, — for by these several titles he was honourably distinguished, — was the hero of a variety of vagabondical adventures both at home and abroad. 1841, Bentley's Miscellany - Volume 7, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 499:
   • He is free of all the shires in England, but never stays at any place long ; the reason is, his profession is to be idle and vagabondical. 1828, John Cumberland, Cumberland's minor theatre:

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