Vagrantize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To wander freely, with no goal.
"I say, in spite of this, my coming home is always coming to such a welcome, that I vow, always, never to vagrantize from that day forth again."
- 2 To turn into a vagrant; to deprive of a home.
"though the proud Cleopatra herself condescended to sue for one night's possession of the barn, old John took a couple of labourers with him, and while his wife was trimming the suppliant queen in her way, he demolished ' the cloud-capt towers and gorgeous palaces,' and turning the whole moveables into the yard, locked the door, and set off to the next justice of the peace, for the purpose of getting the whole set vagrantized."
Example
More examples"I say, in spite of this, my coming home is always coming to such a welcome, that I vow, always, never to vagrantize from that day forth again."
Etymology
From vagrant + -ize.
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