[f. prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb; idle or unconventional wandering; an occasion of this.
1776. Ipswitch Jrnl., 1 June, 2/2. After thus vagabondizing it for some time, he [E. W. Montague] was discovered by the Consul, who returned him to his friends in England.
1829. Sir A. W. Calcott, Lett. to Chantrey, 18 Aug. A note we have had from the Phillips to join you in a vagabondizing to Hampstead.
1849. W. Irving, Goldsmith, xviii. 203. The Continental tour … had, with poor Goldsmith, been little better than a course of literary vagabondizing.
1853. Dickens, Bleak Ho., xxi. Then, vagabondising came natural to you, from the beginning?
