noctivagate

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English

Verb

noctivagate (third-person singular simple present noctivagates, present participle noctivagating, simple past and past participle noctivagated)

  1. (rare, intransitive) To go about by night.
    • 1853, John Murray, The Quarterly Review, page 302:
      [] staying at the alehouse to the very last moment allowed by the law; for why else was he noctivagating about the town at the unnatural hour of nine?
    • 1979, Louis Francis Salzman, William Page, Herbert Edward Salter, A History of the County of Oxford: The City of Oxford, page 172:
      By the early 16th century the university's right to police the streets at night was well established and complaints against the proctors were devoted rather to their inefficiency or brutality than to their right to noctivagate.