divagate
to wander; stray.
to digress in speech.
Origin of divagate
1Other words from divagate
- di·va·ga·tion, noun
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How to use divagate in a sentence
The expansion of criticism in the same thirty years was not a whit less marked than the vast divagation of the novel.
He had an unconquerable and sometimes very irritating habit of digression, of divagation, of aside.
A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) | George SaintsburyThey are not very easy to select from, for their author's singular tendency to divagation affects them.
A Letter Book | George SaintsburyYet it is this very divagation that is called reason, wisdom, morality.
Philosophic Nights In Paris | Remy De GourmontIn his finest passages, as in his most trivial, he is at the mercy of the will-o'-the-wisp of divagation.
Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 | George Saintsbury
British Dictionary definitions for divagate
/ (ˈdaɪvəˌɡeɪt) /
(intr) rare to digress or wander
Origin of divagate
1Derived forms of divagate
- divagation, noun
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