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Noun

extravagation (countable and uncountable, plural extravagations)

1. (archaic) A wandering beyond limits; excess.
   • 1659, Edmund Chilmead (translator), A Learned Treatise of Globes, Both Cœlestiall and Terrestriall with Their Several Uses, London: Andrew Kemb, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 15,^[1]

     By reaso[n] of which their digressions and extravagations, the ancients assigned the Zodiaque 12. Degrees of Latitude.

   • 1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Volume I, The British Novelists, Volume 30, London: V.C. and J. Rivington et al., p. 136,^[2]

     […] I don’t pretend to justify the extravagations of the multitude; who, I suppose, were as wild in their former censure, as in their present praise […]

   • 2010, Paul A. Griffith, Afro-Caribbean Poetry and Ritual, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Preface, p. x,^[3]

     Such tropes expose the extravagation whereby capitalism is decked out as the incontestable standard of human behavior and culture.

2. An agricultural term for the process of activating the enzymes in a cow’s stomach causing it to produce milk, this is due to the applied centrifugal force. The cow usually passes out in the first minute so no harm is felt by the animal. It is mainly used in South American farm mostly in Brasil but the technique can be found in Central Europe as well.

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Verb

extravagate (third-person singular simple present extravagates, present participle extravagating, simple past and past participle extravagated)

1. (intransitive) To wander beyond the limits.
2. (intransitive) To rove.

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• extravagation