a. Obs. [ad. L. vāgient-em, pres. pple. of vāgīre to cry, squall.] Of infants, infancy, etc.: Crying, squalling, wailing.
1628. Gaule, Pract. Theo. (1629), 417. There shall be nor vagient Youngling, nor decrepit Ageling.
1642. H. More, Song of Soul, II. iv. III. xlii. But for the cradle of the Cretian Jove, And guardians of his vagient Infancie, What sober man but sagely will reprove? Ibid. (1659), Immort. Soul (1662), 142. The vagient cries of the Infant Jupiter amidst the … dancings of the Cretick Corybantes.
