evagation

From French évagation, from Latin evagatio, from evagari (“to wander forth”). See also vagary.

evagation (plural evagations)

1. (archaic) A wandering about, excursion, trip or a roving.
   • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:

     Those long ridges and chains of lofty and topping mountains, which run through the whole continents East and West […] serve to stop the evagation of the vapours to the North and South in hot countries

• “evagation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.