Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

noctivagate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: noc-ti-va-gate
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To go about by night.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"[…] 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?"
"By the early 16th century the university's right to police the streets at night was well established and complaints against the proctors were devoted rather to their inefficiency or brutality than to their right to noctivagate."

Usage

Intransitive verb

Inflected Forms

noctivagates (present, singular) noctivagating (participle, present) noctivagated (participle, past) noctivagated (past)

Frequently Paired Words

noctivagation noctivagator

Questions

What does noctivagate mean?: To go about by night.

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