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errant

ADJ ที่ ท่องเที่ยว ไป ทั่ว  ร่อนเร่  พเนจร ไป ทั่ว  ti-tong-tiao-pai-tua

 

errant

ADJ ที่ ประพฤติ ชั่ว  ซึ่ง ประพฤติ ตัว ไม่ดี  ti-pra-prued-chua

 

errantry

N การกระทำ ที่ คล้าย กับ อัศวิน ที่ ชอบ พเนจร เพื่อ ช่วยเหลือ ผู้อื่น 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ERRANT

a.[L. errans, from erro, to err. ] 1. Wandering; roving; rambling; applied particularly to knights, who, in the middle ages, wandered about to seek adventures and display their heroism and generosity, called knights errant.
2. Deviating from a certain course.
3. Itinerant.
Errant, for arrant, a false orthography. [See Arrant. ]

 

ERRANTRY

n.A wandering; a roving or rambling about. 1. The employment of a knight errant.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ERRANT

Er "rant, a. Etym: [F. errant, p. pr. fr. OF. errer to travel, LL. iterare, fr. L. iter journey; confused somewhat with L. errare to err. See Eyre, and cf. Arrant, Itinerant. ]

 

1. Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving. Seven planets or errant stars in the lower orbs of heaven. Sir T. Browne.

 

2. Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant. Would make me an errant fool. B. Jonson.

 

3. (Eng. Law )

 

Defn: Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large. Mozley & W.

 

ERRANT

ERRANT Er "rant, n.

 

Defn: One who wanders about. [Obs. ] Fuller.

 

ERRANTIA

Er *ran "ti *a, n. pl. Etym: [NL. , fr. L. errare to wander. See Err. ](Zoöl.)

 

Defn: A group of chætopod annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chætopoda. [Written also Errantes.]

 

ERRANTRY

ERRANTRY Er "rant *ry, n.

 

1. A wandering; a roving; esp. , a roving in quest of adventures. Addison.

 

2. The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

errant

er rant |ˈerənt ˈɛrənt | ▶adjective 1 [ attrib. ] erring or straying from the proper course or standards: he could never forgive his daughter's errant ways. • Zoology (of a polychaete worm ) of a predatory kind that moves about actively and is not confined to a tube or burrow. 2 [ often postpositive ] archaic or literary traveling in search of adventure: that same lady errant. See also knight errant. DERIVATIVES er ran cy |ˈerənsē |noun errant ( sense 1 ), er rant ry |-trē |noun errant ( sense 2 ) ORIGIN Middle English ( sense 2 ): sense 1 from Latin errant- ‘erring, ’ from the verb errare; sense 2 from Old French errant ‘traveling, ’ present participle of errer, from late Latin iterare ‘go on a journey, ’ from iter ‘journey. ’ Compare with arrant .

 

Oxford Dictionary

errant

errant |ˈɛr (ə )nt | ▶adjective 1 formal or humorous erring or straying from the accepted course or standards: an errant husband coming back from a night on the tiles. • not in the right place; having moved from the correct position or course: an errant strand of hair | fear of being hit by an errant bullet. 2 [ often postpositive ] archaic or literary travelling in search of adventure: that same lady errant. See also knight errant. 3 Zoology (of a polychaete worm ) of a predatory kind that moves about actively and is not confined to a tube or burrow. DERIVATIVES errancy noun errant ( sense 1 ), errantry noun errant ( sense 2 ) ORIGIN Middle English (in sense 2 ): sense 1 from Latin errant- ‘erring ’, from the verb errare; sense 2 from Old French errant ‘travelling ’, present participle of errer, from late Latin iterare ‘go on a journey ’, from iter ‘journey ’. Compare with arrant .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

errant

errant adjective 1 the errant officers were suspended: offending, guilty, culpable, misbehaving, delinquent, lawbreaking; troublesome, unruly, wayward, disobedient. ANTONYMS innocent, law-abiding. 2 archaic a knight errant: traveling, wandering, itinerant, roaming, roving, voyaging. ANTONYMS sedentary.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

errant

errant adjective 1 financial penalties were imposed on errant local authorities: offending, guilty, culpable, misbehaving, delinquent, lawless, lawbreaking, criminal, transgressing, aberrant, deviant, erring, sinning; mischievous, badly behaved, troublesome, difficult, unmanageable, unruly, disobedient, uncontrollable, out of control. ANTONYMS innocent; well behaved. 2 archaic a knight errant: travelling, wandering, itinerant, journeying, rambling, roaming, roving, drifting, floating, wayfaring, voyaging, touring; peripatetic, unsettled, rootless, restless, on the move, on the go, on the wing; nomadic, vagabond, vagrant, migrant, migratory, migrating, transient, displaced; globetrotting, jet-setting. ANTONYMS sedentary.

 

French Dictionary

errant

errant , ante adj. adjectif 1 Vagabond, sans domicile. : Des peuples errants. 2 Perdu. : Un chien errant.

 

Spanish Dictionary

errante

errante adjetivo Que va de un lugar a otro sin emplazamiento fijo :cultura errante; caminó con un grupo errante de cristianos terroristas; Polifemo apareció ante Ulises en su errante navegar; parecías expulsado de alguna tierra, caminabas errante, sin saber a dónde dirigirte .SINÓNIMO errabundo .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

errant

er rant 1 /ér (ə )nt /形容詞 ｟かたく ｠〖名詞 の前で 〗1 誤っている, 間違っている ; 不貞の .2 (冒険を求めて )遍歴する ▸ a knight- errant 武者修業の騎士

 

errant

er rant 2 名詞 ＝errand .