† noctivagator Obs.
[f. nocti- + vagātor, agent-noun f. L. vagārī to wander.]
One who walks by night; a night-walker.
| 1640 Featly Abbot in Fuller's Abel Rediv. (1651) 544 After prayers he commanded the gates to be locked, to prevent or at least discover all noctivagators. 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. v. 99 Who..ask'd this noctivagator, where he had been so late. a 1703 in Gutch Coll. Cur. II. 47 To search and seize Noctivagators and other suspicious persons. |