a. Obs. [ad. L. vagus: see VAGUE a.] Vagrant or vague, in various senses; departing from or exceeding just or ordinary bounds; irregular, inordinate; unsettled, wandering.
1660. trans. Amyraldus’ Treat. conc. Relig., I. i. 15. We have no other assurance of it then so wild and vagous a tradition. Ibid., iii. 32. I know not what natural vagous and indetermin’d notion.
1684. N. S., trans. Crit. Enq. Edit. Bible, ix. 67. The first is only a Vagous way of Disputation, propounding now one thing, now another.
1710. T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp., 78. The whole throng of Physicians … crieth it up … to … cure vagous Pains.
1726. Ayliffe, Parergon, 107. Such as were born and begot of a single woman, through a vagous Lust,… were called Spurii.
1737. Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1757), I. 319. [They] were no doubt liable to vagous and wandering Pains.
