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Definition of Divagates
1. divagate [v] - See also: divagate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divagates
Literary usage of Divagates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Microbes and Men by Robert Tuttle Morris (1915)
"Sex divagates are the spars carrying racing sails of the emotions, or reactionary
sails too close hauled for headway. The safety of sailing of any nation ..."
2. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"Here he divagates into a long controversy with the unfortunate perruque Auger:
elsewhere into an almost totally irrelevant excursus on Lord Byron, Italy, ..."
3. Loci Critici: Passages Illustrative of Critical Theory and Practice from by George Saintsbury (1903)
"Nothing, therefore, can be more 1 Hazlitt divagates somewhat on this point.
The most important passage in the divagation is given above. ..."
4. A Musical Motley by Ernest Newman (1919)
"... and then by the directest route from point to point; and the greater he is
the less he fiddles and fumbles with his idea or divagates from it. ..."
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