vagrantize

Verb

vagrantize (third-person singular simple present vagrantizes, present participle vagrantizing, simple past and past participle vagrantized)

1. To wander freely, with no goal.
   • I say, in spite of this, my coming home is always coming to such a welcome, that I vow, always, never to vagrantize from that day forth again.1852, Lewis William Mansfield, edited by William B. Benedict, Up-country Letters, page 126
   • The ladies and children were about taking leave of him— his long stick in hand and his face turned towards the mountains where he is to vagrantize for the summer—when it occurred to him to turn and inquire, whether, in that closely-tied and yet unexamined bundle, there happened to be a coat.1859, Nathaniel Parker Willis, The Convalescent, page 85
2. To turn into a vagrant; to deprive of a home.
   • though the proud Cleopatra herself condescended to sue for one night's possession of the barn, old John took a couple of labourers with him, and while his wife was trimming the suppliant queen in her way, he demolished ' the cloud-capt towers and gorgeous palaces,' and turning the whole moveables...1797, Mrs. Agnes Maria Bennett, The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors - Volume 1, page 33
   • But the criminal status of other groups was vague; criminals were initially vagrantized bandit groups that then became more and more marginalized as more effective policing” made banditry difficult, if not impossible.1991, Leslie Ann Pahl, Margins of Modernity, page 18