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vehicular, a.|viːˈhɪkjʊla(r)|
Also 7 -are.
[ad. late L. vehiculār-is, f. vehicul-um vehicle n.]
1. Of or pertaining to, associated or connected with, a (wheeled) vehicle.
1616Chapman Homer's Hymn Venus, Charriots and all the frames vehiculare. 1656Blount Glossogr., Vehicular, pertaining to any instrument or engine of carriage. 1754Fielding Voy. Lisbon Wks. 1882 VII. 12 By making use of a vehicular story, to wheel in among them worse manners than their own. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. i, The Insides and Outsides, to use the appropriate vehicular phrases. 1847L. Hunt Men, Women, & B. I. ii. 12 Coachmen and cabmen, and conductors, and horses, and all the exterior phenomena of things vehicular. 1860G. Meredith Evan Harrington x, I heard your welcome vehicular music.
fig.1885Cent. Mag. XXIX. 510 The poet's walk, talk, bearing, and intellect, are illustrated by a series of images, and in a style so vehicular as to deserve unusual praise.
b. Made, performed, or carried on, by means of a vehicle or vehicles.
1742Fielding J. Andrews iii. xii, In his heart he preferred the pedestrian even to the vehicular expedition. 1816Scott Antiq. xxxvi, It is the vehicular, not the equestrian exercise, which he envies. 1854Lowell Jrnl. Italy Prose Wks. 1890 I. 130, I am quite sure that he believes..the Pre-Adamites were..incapable of any but vehicular progression. 1879Daily News 26 Dec. 5/2 Vehicular traffic was almost entirely suspended.
c. Of the nature of, serving as, a vehicle.
1807Byron Let. to Miss Pigot Aug., Places inaccessible to vehicular conveyances. 1844Emerson Ess., Poet, All language is vehicular and transitive, and is good..for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. 1871Lytton Coming Race xiv, They prefer their wings, for travel,..to vehicular conveyances.
†2. Invested with a vehicle or special form; embodied. Obs.
1656S. Holland Zara (1719) 29 That every Grove, Grot and Stream has its tutelar and vehicular Deity. a1774Tucker Lt. Nat. II. xxi. 47 We may gather that the rational soul is compleatly formed..before entrance into the human body, and that the fashion and lineaments it afterwards takes..are not necessary for its subsistence in the vehicular state. Ibid. xxvi. 140 To behold the wonders of the vehicular state, and boundless glories of the mundane soul.
Hence veˈhicularly adv.
1882Sala Amer. Revis. x. 130/1 Pullman the beneficent did not fail..to be vehicularly manifest on the train which conveyed us from Washington to Philadelphia. |