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Divagate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To wander about. intransitive
  2. 2
    lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking wordnet
  3. 3
    To stray from a subject or theme. intransitive

    "The fallen guillotine blade is replaced with a call to awareness that, as we have seen, divagates from Szpiner's "Ayez pitié des enfants.""

Etymology

First attested in 1599; borrowed from Latin dīvagātus, perfect active participle of dīvagor (“to wander here and there”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin dis- (“in different direction”) + vagor (“to wander”). Cognate with French divaguer.

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