a. [f. VAGARY sb.]

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  † 1.  Variable, inconstant, changing. Obs.–1

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1798.  R. P., Tour in Wales (MS.), 36. Thus life’s vagarious tenure passes on! And thus, the scenic vision glows with change!

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  2.  Marked or characterized by, full of, subject to, vagaries; erratic.

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1827.  Examiner, 70/1. The Travels of Wilhelm Meister, wild, vagarious, and disconnected as it is.

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a. 1871.  De Morgan, Budget Parad. (1872), 153. Mr. Wirgman’s mind was somewhat attuned to psychology; but he was cracky and vagarious.

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1897.  Atlantic Monthly, LXXIX. 134. The work … is free from the vagarious theorizing.

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  3.  Wandering, roaming, roving.

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1882.  Harper’s Mag., April, 661. Sharp interruption from the vagarious horned enemy.

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1888.  Sat. Rev., 22 Sept., 363/2. The history of the vagarious canary, Kiki.

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  Hence Vagariously adv.

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1892.  Dispatch (Columbus), 17 Nov. An idly planned and vagariously disposed though always picturesque college retreat.

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