Word of the Day: SOLIVAGOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin solivagus, from solus + vagari (to wander)

EXAMPLE
“… Other creatures live free and independent upon one another, except the young ones of some Creatures, while they can seek their Food and Preservation; and are either Solivagous and Hurtful, as Foxes, Wolves and Tigers, &c. or live promiscuously in Herds and Flocks, and are innocent Creatures as Sheep, Goats, &c. whereas Men live in Dependency one upon another, so as no Man can subsist of himself; …”

From: A Detection Of The Court and State Of England During The Four Last Reigns 
and the Inter-Regnum.
By Roger Coke, 1697
The Reign of King Charles II. A. D. 1661

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