Words at Play : 10 Words We'd Like to See Used More Often
Definition:
: wandering over the world
Example:
"This was in consension with my affectuousity; for I would lever be mundivagant than hospitate with such a sept as his; and at the ignition of the vernal season, I gave his maledicted bye a sempiternal valediction.” Samuel K. Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, 1870
About the Word:
Lexicographers typically live by a stringent code of ethics that includes a rule about not entering words they've made up in the dictionaries they're writing. From what we can tell, Thomas Blount did not abide by that particular rule. Mundivagant appears in print for the first time in Blount's 1656 Glossographia, a dictionary he published in 1656.
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