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Extra-vagant certainly may be construed out of bounds; we need no ghost with a mouthful of Syntax to tell us that; but Shakspeare had too much taste to adopt such an absurd Latinism.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extra-vagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limits of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.

Walden, or Life in the woods 1854

Isti per multos libros vagant legentes assidue: nimirum similles fatuis illis, qui in urbe cicumeunt domos singulas, et earum picturas dissutis malis contuentur: sicque curiositate trahuntur, &c.

Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

As possessing the advantages of education, talents, and knowledge of mankind, in a degree which places him much above the level of those, who have succeeded him in the Methodist Ministry, he may well be supposed not to have propounded the opinions of the sect in a shape more extra - vagant than that, in which they are embraced by his followers.

Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement & Sacrifice, and on the ... William Magee 1812

What, Mr. Twineall, have you new modes, new falhions for words too in England, as well as for dreffes? — and are you equally ex - tra/vagant in their adoption?.

English Plays ... 1787

Now we are in Charity to prefame, that the Author never intended this Extra - vagant Inftance for a Prefident, and therefore the Imperfection of the Fable, muft be help'd out by tome Pertinent Application of it in an In - frructive Moral.

Fables of Æsop, and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflexions. 1692

The News was no fooner brought to the Landlord, but he brake out into This Reflexion upon it: This comes, fays he, ofTranJ 'planting an OldTree, to Gratifie an Extra - vagant

Fables of Æsop, and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflexions. 1692

-- 1. without, or not within; 2. outwards; 3. beyond; 4. for ex, out of: as, 1. extra-provincial, without the province; 2. extra-mission, sending out or onwards; 3. extra-ordinary, beyond ordinary; 4. extra-vagant, wandering beyond just limits.

The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to Facilitate General Improvement Intended for the Use of Schools and Private Tuition 1861

Thus an early bishop, perhaps, thought it proper to repeat a certain form, in a particular kind of shoes or slippers; another fancied, it would be very de - cent, if such a part of public devotions were performed with a mitre on his head and a cro - sier in his hand: to this another added an extra - vagant garb, which, he conceived, would allude very aptly to such and such mysteries; till by degrees, the whole ofEce degenerated into empty and lamentable pageantry.

A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps 1794