adv. Also 6 vagrauntlie. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] As a vagrant; in a vagrant or wandering manner; † irrelevantly.

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1547.  Act 1 Edw. VI., c. 3 § 6. We haue taken this bearer I. K. vagrauntlie,… going loytering idellie abowt.

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a. 1603.  T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 634. The contrary … being barely and nakedly affirmed of the Iesuites, and that most vagrantly, and from the purpose.

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1604.  N. D., 3rd Pt. Three Conversions of Eng., 93. Who would neither haue lands … nor any certaine seats or habitation, but went abroade vagrantly.

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1736.  Ainsworth, Lat. Dict., Vage, wandringly, scatteringly, vagrantly.

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1847.  Webster, Vagrantly, in a wandering, unsettled manner.

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1893.  Dispatch (Columbus), 20 April. Come with me then, vagrantly, into a few of these lovely old home-spots of rural England.

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