vagous

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English

Etymology

Latin vagus. See vague.

Adjective

vagous (comparative more vagous, superlative most vagous)

  1. (obsolete) Wandering; unsettled.
    • 1726, John Ayliffe, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      But such as were born and begot of a single Woman, through a vagous Lust, […]
    • 1722, Luke Milbourne, A Legacy to the Church of England:
      […] who dared to examine their Ways by the Law and by the Testimony when the Reformation of an apparent Error was censur'd as a Practice Heretical and damnable, and all under Pretence of a vagous and uncertain Infallibility […]
    • 1841(?), The American Quarterly Register, volumes 13-14, page 47:
      For tho' They discountenance a Vagous Ministry; I presume they only mean in those Parts of the World, where the People are Christianized and Churches gathered.

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