Meaning of vagitate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To wander or move at random.
   rare
2. To wail, mewl (as an infant).

Examples

“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.”

“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,”

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

“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).”

“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.”

“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.”

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