evagation

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English

Etymology

From French évagation, from Latin evagatio, from evagari (“to wander forth”). See also vagary.

Noun

evagation (plural evagations)

  1. A wandering about; excursion; a roving.
    • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. , London: Samuel Smith, , →OCLC:
      Those long ridges and chains of lofty and topping mountains, which run through the whole continents East and West […] serve to stop the evagation of the vapours to the North and South in hot countries

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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