单词 | vehiculate |
释义 | vehiculatev. 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)] haveeOE ferryOE weighOE bearOE take?a1160 weve13.. carry1348 passa1350 tow1391 geta1393 convey1393 winc1400 transport1483 set1487 convoy1500 traduce1535 port1566 repair1612 vehiculate1628 transmute1683 transplant1769 gallant1806 transit1859 inveigh1878 waltz1884 sashay1928 conduct- 1628 W. Folkingham Panala Medica ii. 9 It Clarifies and purifies its owne Body..with the pure and sincere Tinctures and Faculties of the infused Materialls, and with it vehiculates, caries, communicates and diffuses their virtues and powers into all parts. 1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 27 Giving..a document to mortal manageries, which are then only vehiculated to their central point. 1703 J. Moyle Experienced Chirurgion i. xviii. 66 Now the Blood being extravasated, the Serous Part..cannot vehiculate the Grumous Part into the Vein again to take its right Circulation. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. i. 62 The vehicle for truth, or fact of some sort,—which surely a man should first try various other ways of vehiculating, and conveying safe. b. intransitive. Chiefly humorous. To travel, ride, or drive in or on a vehicle. rare.No earlier use of the word in this sense by Carlyle, as implied by quot. 1843, has been traced; but cf. quot. 1843 at sense 1a. ΚΠ 1843 Orion Oct. 49 Vehiculating—as Carlyle would express it—near the sunset-hour of a summer's day, on my route from Rabun county, towards the south-west. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 36 Yes, my travelling friends, vehiculating in gigs or otherwise over that piece of London road, you may say to yourselves, [etc.]. 1895 Washington Post 2 Nov. 6/2 Wheelmen, a designation which includes all persons who vehiculate on the bicycle. 1959 Bakersfield Californian 20 Apr. 16/4 Mr. and Mrs. Merl G. Marks vehiculated into town from Wasco. 2006 M. D. Hahn Witch Catcher xx. 202 ‘Do ye know how to operate a vehicle, Jen?’..‘Can ye manage to vehiculate to his house?’ 2. transitive. Chiefly Literary Criticism. To serve as a vehicle (vehicle n. 3c) for; to capture or represent in a vehicle; to encapsulate. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > represent physically [verb (transitive)] representc1400 picturea1530 form1590 embody1741 to body forth1800–24 effigy1815 thing1883 vehiculate1928 1928 Eng. Jrnl. 17 711 It is this pervading presence which makes the fiction seem thin, the characters and their doings merely the machinery by which he vehiculates his own experience and ideas. 1967 MLN 82 571 The infant..uses language in, so to speak, a stronger way than when we use it to vehiculate all the possible messages in the world. 2014 J. Fort Imperative to Write i. 43 Many of these affects/effects..are vehiculated by the powerful example of a person who imposes respect..for the moral law which speaks through him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1628 |
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