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==Origin==
Unknown, but the N.E.D. (1909) claims that the medial -g- in ''Roger'' (An itinerant [[beggar]] pretending to be a [[poor]] [[scholar]] from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University Oxford] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University Cambridge].) was pronounced as a plosive rather than an affricate, a [[conjecture]] for which there is no supporting [[evidence]]. On the basis of this [[assumption]], it suggests that the [[word]] may be related to rogue n., and also compares rogation n. However, there is no [[evidence]] to [[support]] these conjectures, and an etymological connection with the family of classical [[Latin]] ''rogāre'' (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogation rogation] n.) is unlikely.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1561]
==Definitions==
*1: vagrant, tramp
*2: a dishonest or worthless [[person]] : scoundrel
*3: a [[mischievous]] [[person]] : scamp
*4: a horse inclined to shirk or misbehave
*5: an [[individual]] exhibiting a [[chance]] and usually inferior biological variation
==Description==
A '''rogue''' is a vagrant [[person]] who wanders from place to place. Like a drifter, a rogue is an independent [[person]] who [[rejects]] [[conventional]] rules of [[society]] in [[favor]] of following their own [[personal]] goals and [[values]].
In [[modern]] [[English]] [[language]], the term rogue is used pejoratively to [[describe]] a dishonest or unprincipled [[person]] whose [[behavior]] one disapproves of, but who is nonetheless likeable or [[attractive]].
The [[word]] rogue was first recorded in [[print]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Awdely John Awdely]'s ''Fraternity of Vagabonds'' (1561), and then in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harman Thomas Harman]'s ''Caveat for Common Cursitors'' (1566).
In England, the 1572 Vagabonds Act defined a rogue as a [[person]] who has no [[land]], no master, and no legitimate trade or source of [[income]]; it included rogues in the [[class]] of idle vagrants or vagabonds. If a [[person]] were apprehended as a rogue, he would be stripped to the waist, whipped until bleeding, and a hole, about the compass of an inch about, would be burned through the cartilage of his right ear with a hot iron. A rogue who was charged with a second [[offence]], unless taken in by someone who would give him [[work]] for one year, could face [[execution]] as a felony. A rogue charged with a third-offence would only [[escape]] [[death]] if someone hired him for two years.
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagabonds_Act_1597 1598 Vagabonds Act] banished and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation transplanted] "incorrigible and [[dangerous]] rogues" overseas, and the 1604 Act commanded that rogues be branded with the letter "R" on their bodies.
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==Origin==
Unknown, but the N.E.D. (1909) claims that the medial -g- in ''Roger'' (An itinerant [[beggar]] pretending to be a [[poor]] [[scholar]] from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University Oxford] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University Cambridge].) was pronounced as a plosive rather than an affricate, a [[conjecture]] for which there is no supporting [[evidence]]. On the basis of this [[assumption]], it suggests that the [[word]] may be related to rogue n., and also compares rogation n. However, there is no [[evidence]] to [[support]] these conjectures, and an etymological connection with the family of classical [[Latin]] ''rogāre'' (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogation rogation] n.) is unlikely.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1561]
==Definitions==
*1: vagrant, tramp
*2: a dishonest or worthless [[person]] : scoundrel
*3: a [[mischievous]] [[person]] : scamp
*4: a horse inclined to shirk or misbehave
*5: an [[individual]] exhibiting a [[chance]] and usually inferior biological variation
==Description==
A '''rogue''' is a vagrant [[person]] who wanders from place to place. Like a drifter, a rogue is an independent [[person]] who [[rejects]] [[conventional]] rules of [[society]] in [[favor]] of following their own [[personal]] goals and [[values]].
In [[modern]] [[English]] [[language]], the term rogue is used pejoratively to [[describe]] a dishonest or unprincipled [[person]] whose [[behavior]] one disapproves of, but who is nonetheless likeable or [[attractive]].
The [[word]] rogue was first recorded in [[print]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Awdely John Awdely]'s ''Fraternity of Vagabonds'' (1561), and then in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harman Thomas Harman]'s ''Caveat for Common Cursitors'' (1566).
In England, the 1572 Vagabonds Act defined a rogue as a [[person]] who has no [[land]], no master, and no legitimate trade or source of [[income]]; it included rogues in the [[class]] of idle vagrants or vagabonds. If a [[person]] were apprehended as a rogue, he would be stripped to the waist, whipped until bleeding, and a hole, about the compass of an inch about, would be burned through the cartilage of his right ear with a hot iron. A rogue who was charged with a second [[offence]], unless taken in by someone who would give him [[work]] for one year, could face [[execution]] as a felony. A rogue charged with a third-offence would only [[escape]] [[death]] if someone hired him for two years.
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagabonds_Act_1597 1598 Vagabonds Act] banished and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation transplanted] "incorrigible and [[dangerous]] rogues" overseas, and the 1604 Act commanded that rogues be branded with the letter "R" on their bodies.
[[Category: Law]]
[[Category: Languages and Literature]]