vehiculumn.
/vᵻˈhɪkjᵿləm/, /viːˈhɪkjᵿləm/, U.S. /viˈhɪkjələm/ Now rare. † 3. A form of transport or conveyance; = vehicle n. 4. Also figurative. Obsolete.
1. A substance, esp. a liquid, which acts as a means for the distribution and application or action of another substance dissolved in or mixed with it; = vehicle n. 1. Also figurative and in extended use.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > specific material mixed with another substance
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1594 H. Plat Diuers Chimicall Concl. Distillation 3 in Jewell House Vse the first water againe for the vehiculum in your second drawing, because the same hath alreadie receyued his glutte of the oyles.
1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. x. 143 Here is..some truth mingled among, to giue the better grace, and to be as it were the Vehiculum of a lie.
1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick i. vii. 33 The Dose is one dram in any proper Liquor or Vehiculum to swallow it down with.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 12 We doubt not but to make a Sovereign Antidote against Atheism, out of that very Philosophy, which so many have used as a Vehiculum to convey this Poyson of Atheism by.
1787 P. H. Maty tr. J. K. Riesbeck Trav. Germany III. 76 Burgundy is the standing vehiculum of green pease.
1847 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 24 435 Perhaps the infus. salviæ or some other mucilaginous preparation containing less sugar would be a more appropriate vehiculum.
2004 Internat. Jrnl. Dermatol. 44 16/2 The compound was applied topically... The control animals were treated with a vehiculum only.
2. A material means, channel, or instrument, by which a property, substance, or influence is conveyed or transmitted; a medium, a conduit; = vehicle n. 3.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > a means of transmission or manifestation
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a1617 P. Baynes Comm. First & Second Chapters Colossians (1634) (i. 6) 23 It belong to Him to raise up this light of the Gospell, and carry it by His Ministers (the Vehicula of it) whither He pleaseth.
1625 S. Bradwell Watch-man for Pest 44 Now the Sent is meerely a qualitie, and his substance is the Aire, which is the vehiculum or seat of the Sent wherein it is carried.
1641 F. W. Warm Beere i. 5 Drink is..the vehiculum and carrier of the nourishment into the universall bodie.
1652 E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum Annot. 451 She is the Planet neerest the Earth, and appointed as it were the Vehiculum of all other heavenly Influences unto what is Sublunary.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xvii. 44 The wheyish..exceeds the two excrementitious Cholers, by reason of the Blood, whose vehiculum it was to be.
1845 N.-Y. Evangelist 13 Mar. 1/3 The Bible gives us no knowledge of any such semi-substantive, semi-ethereal, interjacent fluid; the vehiculum of consciousness, acting as a carrier between minds.
1960 E. C. Pettet Of Paradise & Light iii. 75 As water is the ‘vehiculum’ of the major physical processes in the cosmos, so through the sacrament of baptism..it is the vehiculum of spiritual development—of divine descent and human ascent.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > [noun]
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vehiculum?1632
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?1632 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xiii. 216 Ships and Boates, they are used..to carry her to her Elizean Fields,..her heart and affections on these her vehicula or convoyes.
1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. 65 Unchast, Obscene, and Amorous wordes, are but so many vehiculaes, to carrie men on to Adulterous and Sinfull deedes.
1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xii. 160 Speech is the..Ambassador of the mind, and the Tongue the Vehiculum, the Chariot, which conveyeth..the notions of the Mind to Reasons Palace.
1853 Knickerbocker (N.Y.) Aug. 160 I therefore consulted with mine host,..and we sallied forth in search of a vehiculum.
1859 New Sporting Mag. Nov. 330 I got into the vehiculum, and was conveyed to Halkirk.
4. A material form in which something spiritual or abstract is manifested or embodied; = vehicle n. 2.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > [noun] > body as home of
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1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 75 Having imposed each one his proper Star as a vehiculum.
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 80 The rest of the body they appointed as a vehiculum to serve this.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature IV. 15 Plato..supposes, that into the vehiculum of the soul..is infused..a particular formative virtue, distinct, according to that star.
1840 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 88/2 [The spirit's] vehicula, like the cover of an Egyptian two thousand years dead, have been looked to for all that was to characterise it—the chrysalis shell mistaken for the living psyche.
1993 F. Akkerman et al. Wessel Gansfort i. vii. 127 To be sure, the words ‘per panem’ should not be interpreted as if the bread of the Eucharist were a vehiculum of the body of Christ.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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