vagary

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VAGA'RY, noun [Latin vagus, wandering.] A wandering of the thoughts; a wild freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose. They chang'd their minds, flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.
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