The Collaborative International Dictionary
Runagate \Run"a*gate\, n. [F. ren['e]gat, Prov. renegat. LL.
renegatus; confused with E. run and gate a way. See
Renegade.]
A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See
Renegade.
--Bunyan.
Wretched runagates from the jail.
--De Quincey.
Who has not been a runagate from duty?
--Hare.
Wiktionary
n. A deserter, renegade or apostate.
Usage examples of "runagate".
Runagate looped around, rolled, then accelerated as a brace of boojum missiles flashed by.
No, I mean imprudent in that you talk too much of the Godless King and the runagate Queen, who will show her bosom and legs to all and go to mass hiccuping with the drink.
When this Pickthank had told his tale, the Judge directed his speech to the prisoner at the bar, saying, Thou runagate, heretic, and traitor, hast thou heard what these honest gentlemen have witnessed against thee?
For if half of what is said of England is true, the place is full of runagates, Vagabonds, highwaymen, and varlets of all stripes.
Such was indeed my intention up to the year 1785, when I found this runagate at Vienna.
I have set before your eyes the vagrants and runagates by name, so I will tell you, that among yourselves, some of them shall creep in to beguile you, even such as would seem, and that in appearance are, very rife and hot for religion.
Runagate just shouted in my ear that he knows all about snarks and boojums.
I shall leave my Winchester runagates to the care of the provost-marshal, and I shall hie south with you, Nigel, with my truffles at my saddle-bow.
Almira and Wolverton Control, the fleet ahead, her colleagues, the 'Reen, Runagate.