Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.

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*(Bible), (w) xi.37:

*:They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.

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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.

(lb) To stray; stray from one's course; err.

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*(Bible), (Psalms) cxix.10:

*:O, let me not wander from thy commandments.

(lb) To commit adultery.

(lb) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.

(lb) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

Verb

(es)

To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.

* Holland

Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.

* John Locke

In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.

* {{quote-song

, year = 1959 , title = In Old Mexico , composer = (Tom Lehrer) , passage = For I hadn't had so much fun since the day / my brother's dog Rover / got run over. / (Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the driver both ears and the tail – but I digress .) }}

To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.

* Shakespeare

Thy abundant goodness shall excuse / This deadly blot on thy digressing son.