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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Extravagant

Ex-trăv'a-gant, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. extra and vagans, wandering, p. pr. of vagari; Fr. extravagant, Sp. extravagante, It. extravagante. See EXTRAVAGATE.]

  1. Wandering beyond bounds; inclined to err; going out of fixed or proper limits; irregular. “The extravagant and erring spirits.” Shak.
  2. Wild; excessive; unrestrained; uncontrolled; as, extravagant flights of fancy.

There is something nobly wild and extravagant in great geniuses. Addison. 3. Profuse in expenses; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man. A morbid restlessness now led him to great and extravagant expense. Bancroft.

Ex-trăv'a-gant, n.

noun

n. 1. One who is confined to no general rule. L'Estrange. 2. (pl.) (Eccl. Hist.) Certain papal constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with the others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.