“divagation”的英英意思

单词	divagation
释义	divagation|daɪvəˈgeɪʃən| [n. of action f. L. dīvagārī: see prec. and -tion: cf. F. divagation (16– 17th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).] The action of divagating; a wandering or straying away or about: deviation; digression. 1560Bk. Discipl. Ch. Scot. ix. (1621) 59 This skipping and divagation from place to place of Scripture.1664H. More Myst. Iniq. ii. i. xi. 272 That the phancy may make no divagation.1855Ess. Intuit. Mor. 149 The illogical divagations of their adherents.1881Sat. Rev. 1 Jan. 13 Her divagations from the proper purpose of her life will be forgotten.1883Stevenson Silverado Sq. ii. 78 With that vile lad to head them off on idle divagations.

　

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