| 释义 |
ˈvagancy rare.
[f. vagant a.: see -ancy.]
A wandering or strolling. Also fig.
1641Milton Ch. Govt. i. i, That our happinesse may orbe it selfe into a thousand vagancies of glory and delight. 1641Brome Joviall Crew v, Springlove. My humble suit is that you will be pleas'd To let me walk upon my known occasions this Sommer. Lawyer. Fie! Canst not yet leave off those Vagancies? 1945A. J. Macdonald Episcopi Vagantes in Church Hist. 8 The sentence of deprivation, which was intended as a means of checking episcopal vagancy, in effect only made it worse, by causing the offender to pass from being an occasional vagans into a condition of permanent vagancy. |
