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wandered

 

  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wander  \Wan"der\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Wandered};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Wandering}.]  [OE.  wandren  wandrien  AS  wandrian  akin 
  to  G.  wandern  to  wander;  fr  AS  windan  to  turn.  See  {Wind} 
  to  turn.] 
  1.  To  ramble  here  and  there  without  any  certain  course  or 
  with  no  definite  object  in  view;  to  range  about  to 
  stroll;  to  rove;  as  to  wander  over  the  fields. 
 
  They  wandered  about  in  sheepskins  and  goatskins. 
  --Heb.  xi  37. 
 
  He  wandereth  abroad  for  bread.  --Job  xv  23. 
 
  2.  To  go  away  to  depart;  to  stray  off  to  deviate;  to  go 
  astray;  as  a  writer  wanders  from  his  subject. 
 
  When  God  caused  me  to  wander  from  my  father's  house. 
  --Gen.  xx  13. 
 
  O,  let  me  not  wander  from  thy  commandments.  --Ps. 
  cxix.  10. 
 
  3.  To  be  delirious;  not  to  be  under  the  guidance  of  reason; 
  to  rave;  as  the  mind  wanders. 
 
  Syn:  To  roam;  rove;  range;  stroll;  gad;  stray;  straggly;  err; 
  swerve;  deviate;  depart.




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