Meaning of vagrantize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To wander freely, with no goal.
2. To turn into a vagrant; to deprive of a home.

Examples

“I say⟳, in spite of this, my coming home is always coming to such a welcome⟳, that I vow, always, never to vagrantize from that day forth again.”

“The ladies and children were about taking leave⟳ of him— his long stick⟳ in hand and his face⟳ turned towards the mountains where he is to vagrantize for the summer—when it occurred to him to turn⟳ and inquire, whether, in that closely-tied and yet unexamined bundle, there happened to be a coat.”

“On the 10th he had been out on the other side of the river, vagrantizing in his usual fashion, and returning late to his little boat, and, as we suspect⟳, having fallen asleep, he drifted ashore at Stony Point⟳.”

“though the proud Cleopatra herself condescended to sue for one night's possession of the barn, old John took a couple of labourers with him, and while his wife was trimming the suppliant queen in her way, he demolished ' the cloud-capt towers and gorgeous palaces,' and turning the whole moveables into the yard, locked the door, and set⟳ off to the next justice of the peace, for the purpose of getting the whole set⟳ vagrantized.”

“But the criminal status of other groups was vague; criminals were initially vagrantized bandit groups that then became more and more marginalized as more effective policing” made banditry difficult, if not impossible.”

“Immobilized, unable to drag⟳ himself out to the fort, Bu Yu had been vagrantized, or so he'd thought, on a permanent basis.”

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