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noctivagating

noctivagating is the present participle and gerund of noctivagate.

Meaning of noctivagate

Verb

noctivagate (third-person singular simple present noctivagates, present participle noctivagating, simple past and past participle noctivagated)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To go about by night.
    • […] staying at the alehouse to the very last moment allowed by the law; for why else was he noctivagating about the town at the unnatural hour of nine?1853, John Murray, The Quarterly Review, page 302

Questions about noctivagating

What is noctivagating the present participle and gerund of?
Noctivagating is the present participle and gerund of noctivagate.

Words near noctivagating in the dictionary

  1. noctivagant
  2. noctivagants
  3. noctivagate
  4. noctivagated
  5. noctivagates
  6. noctivagating
  7. noctivagation
  8. noctivagations
  9. noctivagator
  10. noctivagators
  11. noctivagous

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