Obs. Also 4 vagacyone, 5–6 -cion, 6 -cyon, -tione. [ad. L. vagātiōn-, vagātio, n. of action f. vagārī to wander. Cf. OF. vagation (Godef.), Pg. vagação.] The action of wandering, straying, or departing from the proper or regular course; an instance or occasion of this; a wandering, rambling, roaming; an aberration. In lit. and fig. use.
c. 1340. Hampole, Prose Tr. (1866), 14. Whene þe mynde es stablede sadely with-owtten changynge and vagacyone in Godd.
c. 1450. Myrr. our Ladye, 42. For this vagacion is caused of dulnes, and of heuynes of harte.
1502. Atkynson, trans. De Imitatione, III. xxvii. 219. Chase fro myn hert all maner darkenes, stablysshe the great vagacions of my mynde that I suffre.
1549. Compl. Scot., xiii. 111. Ane of his familiar frendis inquyrit hym of the cause of his inconstant vagatione.
1597. G. Harvey, Trimming T. Nashe, Wks. (Grosart), III. 53. Neuerthelesse can I accuse you of lazines; for all this time of your vagation, with you I thinke the Signe hath been in Pisces.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 291. Socrates, offended at the bold and blind vagations of men, in their disputations about the measures of the sunne.
1713. Derham, Phys.-Theol., IV. ii. 100. By this so curious and exact a Libration, unseemly Contortions and Vagations of the Eye are prevented. Ibid. (1714), Astro-Theol., IV. v. (1769), 118. But I have myself observed a greater vagation in the third satellite.
