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Definition of Extravagate
1. v. i. To rove.
Definition of Extravagate
1. Verb. (intransitive) To wander beyond the limits. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To rove. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Extravagate
1. [v -GATED, -GATING, -GATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extravagate
Literary usage of Extravagate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1813)
"... and are apt to extravagate into a waste of vegetation in their side branches.
To compensate for this native defect, all these are patient of the knife. ..."
2. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"... "extravagate," "colloquies," "arbitrement," "patrimony," "subversion,"
"perturbation";3 and expressions like "preclude conviction," "erewhile my tuneful ..."
3. Novye parallelʹnye slovari i͡a︡zykov russkago, frant͡s︡uzskago by Ch. Ph. Reiff (1875)
"... II se réconcilier.. la réconciliation être obligé de sortir to cut sloping; 1.
to deviate, digress, extravagate ..."
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