Dictionary entry

Divagation

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Di′va‐ga″tion (?), n. [L. divagari to wander about; di- = dis- + vagari to stroll about: cf. F. divagation. See Vagary.] A wandering about or going astray; digression.

Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation. Thackeray.