nubivagant

English

Etymology

From Latin nubes (“cloud”) + vagant- (“wandering”).

Adjective

nubivagant (comparative more nubivagant, superlative most nubivagant)

(rare) Wandering in the clouds; moving through the air.
- 1839, J. Cypress, Jr., "More Collineomania: A Fit, Brought On By Looking At The Picture", American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, October 1839:
  On the whole, although a man must do his duty, "painful as it is," (as a Judge would say to a felon whom he is going to sentence to death,) yet it would be better for a collineomaniac to think, now and then, of the desolation he is bringing down upon happy nests; of how many little broods he may cause to starve; of how many robbed mates he will send, nubivagant, whistling and singing tremulous love-notes through the air, vainly searching and calling for their lost spouses, never, never to return!
- 2011, Katie Abrahams, "Audience gets the royal treatment from Prince", The University Times, 12 August 2011:
  I suspect I will never again see a crowd of 35,000 transform with such speed into nubivagant hip-swivelling beasts.
- 2012, Mark Forsyth, The Horologian: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words, Berkley (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
  Aircraft are all nubivagant, gorillas are all nemorivagant, and a holiday in Snowdonia could be described as a montivagant weekend.

单词	nubivagant
释义	nubivagant English Etymology From Latin nubes (“cloud”) + vagant- (“wandering”). Adjective nubivagant (comparative more nubivagant, superlative most nubivagant) (rare) Wandering in the clouds; moving through the air. 1839, J. Cypress, Jr., "More Collineomania: A Fit, Brought On By Looking At The Picture", American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, October 1839: On the whole, although a man must do his duty, "painful as it is," (as a Judge would say to a felon whom he is going to sentence to death,) yet it would be better for a collineomaniac to think, now and then, of the desolation he is bringing down upon happy nests; of how many little broods he may cause to starve; of how many robbed mates he will send, nubivagant, whistling and singing tremulous love-notes through the air, vainly searching and calling for their lost spouses, never, never to return! 2011, Katie Abrahams, "Audience gets the royal treatment from Prince", The University Times, 12 August 2011: I suspect I will never again see a crowd of 35,000 transform with such speed into nubivagant hip-swivelling beasts. 2012, Mark Forsyth, The Horologian: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words, Berkley (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page: Aircraft are all nubivagant, gorillas are all nemorivagant, and a holiday in Snowdonia could be described as a montivagant weekend.
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