Noctivagate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Noctivagate is a verb meaning (rare, intransitive) To go about by night.
Meaning
(rare, intransitive) To go about by night.
Example Sentences
[…] 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.
Word Forms
- noctivagates
- noctivagating
- noctivagated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include noctambulate, somnambulate, vamp, vagabondize, club, peripateticate.
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