ETYMOLOGY
from Latin noctivagant-, noctivagans, present participle of noctivagare (to wander or roam about at night)
EXAMPLE
“…How should this make vs mourne like Doues, and groane like Turtles? The wilde Swallowes, our vnbridled Youngsters sing in the warme Chimneyes: the lusfull Sparrowes, noctiuagant Adulterers, sit cherping about our houses; the filching Iayes, Secret theeues, rob our Orchards; the Kite and the Cormorant, deuoure and hoord our fruits: and shall not among all these, the voyce of the Turtle be heard on our land, mourning for these sinfull rapines? …”
From: The Diuells Banket
By Thomas Adams, 1614
PRONUNCIATION
nock-TIV-uh-guhnt
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