Hypertext Webster Gateway: "divagation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Divagation \Di`va*ga"tion\, n. [L. divagari to wander about; di-
= dis- + vagari to stroll about: cf. F. divagation. See
{Vagary}.]
A wandering about or going astray; digression.
Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further
divagation. --Thackeray.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
divagation
n : a message that departs from the main subject [syn: {digression},
{aside}, {excursus}, {parenthesis}]
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