evagate

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verb

To wander.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verbevagate (third-person singular simple present evagates, present participle evagating, simple past and past participle evagated)

present singular third person evagates · participle present evagating · participle past evagated · past evagated

  1. To wander.

    If, on the contrary, a placid and sleep-cemented satisfaction prevails in it, we quickly rid ourselves of a card, and evagate, or wander

    1840, Colburn's Kalendar of Amusements in Town and Country, for 1840

Origin

  1. Latinevagor
  2. Englishevagate

From Latin evagor.

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