vagient

English

Etymology

From Latin vagiens, present participle of vagire (“to cry like a young child”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈveɪd͡ʒiənt/

Adjective

vagient (comparative more vagient, superlative most vagient)

1. (obsolete, formal) Crying like a child.
   • 1629, John Gaule, Practiqve Theories, or Votiue Speculations, vpon Iesvs Christs Prediction, Incarnation, Passion, Resurrection, London:

     vagient youngling

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vagient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Vigeant, vintage

Latin

Verb

vāgient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of vāgiō