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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Wand(e)ring, ppl. adj. [Late ME and e.m.E. wandrynge (c1400), wandering (1544), wandring (1582).] a. Travelling, itinerant, vagrant, roaming. Also Wandering Jew.(1) 1585 Reg. Privy C. III 747.
That strait ordour be putt to the wandering people, maisterfull beggaris, and utheris 1607 Aberd. B. Rec. II 293.
To sie that thair be no wandering persones efter the hour of ten 1669 Dunblane Synod 71.
The clerk of the synod ordained to writt ane letter … anent ane wandering Levite … who did unlawfullie marie some persones 1688 Cramond Kirk S. II 6 May.
The heretors and members of session mett, takeing to thair consideration the Act of his Majesties Privy Counsell for restraining of wandering beggers(2) 1632 Lithgow Trav. vii 345.
Tradition, as their wandring Jew, the shoomaker of Jerusalem is, of whom in Rome, they have wrot ten thousand fables
b. Of a rumour or report: Circulating.1710 Rothesay Par. Rec. 272.
The session finding only a wandring report that Janet N'Michael is somewhere in the parish of Innerchallen appoint [etc.]
