Meanings
- not comparableWandering alone.
1 more example
After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervestigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, “LETTER NO. VIII.”, in Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, 2nd edition, Cincinnati: Applegate & Co., →OL, page 28
Origin
- Latinsōlivagāns
- Englishsolivagant
From Latin sōlivagāns, from sōlus (“alone”) + vagāns, present participle of vagō (“wander”).
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