vagitate

present singular third person vagitates · participle present vagitating · participle past vagitated · past vagitated

1. rareTo wander or move at random.

   My head spins like the vagitated gears of a drunken kaleidoscope, and my eyelids droop like the shade.

   2008, Davis Schneiderman, Dis: (or, The Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure), Buffalo, N.Y.: BlazeVOX Books, →ISBN, page 28

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   Even with the emergence of the ideas of self-assertion among the Asians, the Imperialists are not only trying to dominate the region through the system of remote control, but are also vagitating around to get a chance again to enter the ground and graze wantonly.

   1987, Buddhist Studies, volumes 11–12, Delhi: University of Delhi, →ISSN, →OCLC, page iv

   O I live in a wander tree who travels all the turny trails and vagitates the vexy vales awhere a world'll dare to be,

   2002 December 2, Elspeth, “The Marish Mere”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet)

   What next in the corpse light? To a studio at the top of No. 6 Rue des Favorites before vagitating to the outside vantage of his seventh-floor flat in an apartment block at 38 Boulevard Saint-Jacques with the prison in its brevity across the way. Note. Despite the different sense, this may allude to Samuel Beckett's use of 'vagitate' (quoted below).

   2019, Richard Marshall, “Defunge”, in Andrew Gallix, editor, We'll Never Have Paris, London: Repeater, page 444

present singular third person vagitates · participle present vagitating · participle past vagitated · past vagitated

1. To wail, mewl (as an infant).

   Et le râle, qu'est-ce qu'on en fait. Peut-être n'est-il pas de rigueur après tout. Avoir vagi, puis ne pas être foutu de râler.

   1956 [1951], Samuel Beckett, translated by Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies, translation of Malone meurt (in French)

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   The crucial difference, however, is that in all but one of these English situations, the equitable ownership reappears within at most eighty years: the discretion is exercised, the estate is administered, the unborn vagitate.

   2000, Andrew Huxley, “Rhodes, Arakan, Grand Cayman: Three Versions of Offshore”, in Ian Edge, editor, Comparative Law in Global Perspective: Essays in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the SOAS Law Department, page 159