10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NOCTIVAGANT»
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The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words
NOCTIVAGANT a. ^* Wandering by night. An undoctored cat; or the large
huntsman spider that appears on a different ceiling each morning. "Sorry, Brett, I
just don't know where Lisa is this evening; she's become rather noctivagant since
she ...
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The Gilded Tongue: Overly Eloquent Words for Everyday Things
Overly Eloquent Words for Everyday Things Rod L. Evans. m During the romantic
evening the sky was dark, the stars were sparkling, and the moon was nitid.
NOCTIVAGANT (nahk-TIV-uh-gint): adj. from Latin noctivaguS (night-wandering),
...
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Middle School Magic: Penumbras
From the first, he hegged me to let him hecome a Noctivagant—what the Magi
rather crudely call Darkhands. He promised to give me infirrmation ahout the
Magi and hecome a douhle agent I'd spare him. I agreed, figuring he might he
usej'ul.
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Verbal Advantage: 10 Easy Steps to a Powerful Vocabulary
Noctivagant comes from the Latin noctivagus, wandering by night, which comes
in turn from nox, meaning "night," and vagari, to wander about. This Latin vagari
is also the source of the English adjective vague, literally "wandering in thought,"
...
Charles Harrington Elster, 2000
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Portugal illustrated, letters
... serenaded by the domestic broils of the vigilant cabal over the offerings made,
to the great danger of the passenger, from the upper windows of the houses, to
noctivagant Cloacina. The singular cry of one old gentleman, who, from infirmity,
...
William Morgan Kinsey, 1828
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary: And Expositor of the ...
Noctidiai, ndk-tid-yal, or nok-tid-je-al, udj 294. 376. Comprising a night and a day.
Noctiferous, nik-dffer-us, adj. 518. Bring, ing nighL Noctivagant, nok-tiv'vd-gant,
adj. Wandering in the night. Noctuary, nok-tshi-l-re, a. 461,- An account of what ...
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A critical pronouncing dictionary, and expositor of the ...
(518). Bringing night. Noctivagant, nok-th/va-gant. a. Wandering in the night.
Noctuary, nok'tshu-a-re. s. (461). An account of what passes by night. Nocturn,
n&k'turn. s. An office of devotion performed in the night. Nocturnal, n&k-tur'nal. a. (
88).
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A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
Bringing night. NOCTIVAGANT,n6k-tIv'-vi-gant. a. Wandering mi the night.
NOCTUARY, n6k'-tshu er-ry.s. An account of what pastes by night. NOCTURN,
nok'-tfirn. s. An office of devotion performed in the night. NOCTURNAL, n6k-tur'-
nel. a.
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A Dictionary in English and Bengalee
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Niveous, ৪৪- I-at বরফ ব] গানামর, ররফবৎ, পানারন্যার I Noctivagant. ৪৪- [মোঃ রাত্রে
তুমণককৌ, ...
Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, 1834
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An universal etymological English dictionary. 21st [sic] ed
NOCTIVAGANT[^i7rwy/*i, L»] wandering by Night. NOCTURLA'IE [among
Afirtitenurs] an Instrument to find the Motion of the North Star about ;hc Pole.
NOCTURN \n;ilurnum, L.] a Part of Church Service for the Night. NOCTURN [
nocturne, F. of ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NOCTIVAGANT»
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"The bat that can resist all these inducements must be little better than a brickbat, and yet who ever knew one of those wayward, noctivagant ... «The Week Magazine, Dec 14»
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... devouring asphalt in search of The Crossroads, where deals are brokered under noctivagant cloak. Nasty guitar augments Stroup's amble ... «Corvallis Gazette Times, Jul 13»
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Noctivagant cinema habitués with a desire for sarcastic movie hegira tend to crave a different type of experience at the theater, which these ... «Twin Cities Planet, Jul 10»
Tasmania: Alarmed by bumps in the starlit night
They were – for a moment – the noctivagant spirits of the vanished Oyster Bay Tribe. Instinctively, I kneeled – and also to check their outline ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 08»
