Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wandered"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wander \Wan"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wandered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Wandering}.] [OE. wandren, wandrien, AS. wandrian; akin
to G. wandern to wander; fr. AS. windan to turn. See {Wind}
to turn.]
1. To ramble here and there without any certain course or
with no definite object in view; to range about; to
stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.

They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
--Heb. xi. 37.

He wandereth abroad for bread. --Job xv. 23.

2. To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go
astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.

When God caused me to wander from my father's house.
--Gen. xx. 13.

O, let me not wander from thy commandments. --Ps.
cxix. 10.

3. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason;
to rave; as, the mind wanders.

Syn: To roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err;
swerve; deviate; depart.


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