Word Meanings - ERRANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large. Mozley & W. (more info) iterare, fr. L. iter journey; confused somewhat with L. errare to 1. Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from

Additional info about word: ERRANT

Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large. Mozley & W. (more info) iterare, fr. L. iter journey; confused somewhat with L. errare to 1. Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving. Seven planets or errant stars in the lower orbs of heaven. Sir T. Browne. 2. Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant. Would make me an errant fool. B. Jonson.

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• JOURNEYWORK
  Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• CIRCUITOUS
  Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• CONFUS
  Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
• COURSED
  1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• COURSE
  1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
• JOURNEYER
  One who journeys.
• JOURNEY-BATED
  Worn out with journeying. Shak.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• ITINERANT
  Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler. The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with
• CIRCUITY
  A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• RECOURSEFUL
  Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.