What does noctivagate mean?
Noctivagate means (rare, intransitive) To go about by night..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(rare, intransitive) To go about by night..
[…] staying at the alehouse to the very last moment allowed by the law; for why else was he noctivagating about the town at the unnatural hour of nine?
By the early 16th century the university's right to police the streets at night was well established and complaints against the proctors were devoted rather to their inefficiency or brutality than to their right to noctivagate.
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Noctivagate means (rare, intransitive) To go about by night..
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[…] staying at the alehouse to the very last moment allowed by the law; for why else was he noctivagating about the town at the unnatural hour of nine?
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