What does vagarian mean?
Vagarian means One with ridiculous or whimsical ideas; a crackpot..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
One with ridiculous or whimsical ideas; a crackpot..
Why, it was but yesterday that the mariner's compass was discovered, that printing was shown to be practicable, that steam power was laughed at as an absurdity, and the electric telegraph ridiculed as the hobby of a vagarian's brain.
It has produced superstitious enthusiasts, harebrained vagarians, who have brought the most sacred things into contempt.
But charlatans and vagarians never cease to appropriate scientific terms for their pseudologies.
There were other vagarians, writers of imaginary voyages who sought to impose on a public eager for a new sensation, and still they come with books which are taken seriously by the unthinking.
I suppose that the obvious facts are always giving us vagarians the slip, like our old family cow, unless we follow them up sharply through flood or fire.
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Vagarian means One with ridiculous or whimsical ideas; a crackpot..
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Why, it was but yesterday that the mariner's compass was discovered, that printing was shown to be practicable, that steam power was laughed at as an absurdity, and the electric telegraph ridiculed as the hobby of a vagarian's brain.
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