Question: What is the meaning of extravagant? I. i. 154.
The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine: and of the truth herein
This present object made probation.
Answer: "Extravagant" compounded from Latin extra, and
vagare-vagans, originally meant wandering beyond due
bounds, limits, in the broadest sense, but now is restricted to
meaning wandering beyond bounds as regards expenditures.
Mertins, Emma. Shakespeare Examinations. Ed. William Taylor Thom, M. A. Boston: Ginn and Co., 1888. Shakespeare Online. 10 Aug. 2010. (date when you accessed the information) < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/hamlet/examq/seven.html >.
