rare0. [f. as next + -AN.] One given to vagaries or whims.
1858. Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, 31 March, 2/1. Why, it was but yesterday that the mariners compass was discovered, that printing was shown to be practicable, that steam power was laughed at as an absurdity, and the electric telegraph ridiculed as the hobby of vagarians brain.
1891. in Cent. Dict.