Vagabondical

Quick meaning: Vagabondical is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Pertaining to or having the characteristics of a vagabond.

Meaning

(obsolete) Pertaining to or having the characteristics of a vagabond.

Example Sentences

He is free of all the shires in England, but never stays at any place long ; the reason is, his profession is to be idle and vagabondical.

Plain Joe Haynes, the learned Doctor Haynes , or the dignified Count Haynes, — for by these several titles he was honourably distinguished, — was the hero of a variety of vagabondical adventures both at home and abroad.

As, so stand bolt upright, to lie flat upon the ground, to turn round as a ring holding their tails in their teeth, to beg for their meat; and sundry such properties, which they learn of their vagabondical masters, whose instruments they are to gather gain withal in city, country, town, and village.

He was an intricate prognosticator of firmamental eclipses, and vaticinated future occurrents by the mysterious influences of the sublime stars and vagabondical planets; generated he was by the inhuman conjunction of an incubus; and was immur'd alive in a cave by the pre-eminent magic of the Lady of the Lake.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vagabondish, vagrant, vague, vagrantlike, vagarish, vagulous.

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