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单词 viatic
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viaticn.

Forms: In 1600s viaticke.
Obsolete.
= viaticum n.
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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > set apart for a purpose > spending- or pocket-money > for journey
wayfare1577
viaticum1594
viatic1641
travel allowance1835
taxi fare1910
1641 Impeachm. Father Phillips x. A iij b After a Viaticke, hee was dispatched againe for England, with some few small Gifts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

viaticadj.

Etymology: < Latin viāticus (rare), < via way.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: viˈatic.
Obsolete. rare exc. for revived nonce-uses.
(See quot. 1656.)
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Viatick, pertaining to a journey, or travelling by the way. [Hence in Phillips, Bailey, and later Dicts.]
1974 V. Nabokov Look at Harlequins (1975) iv. i. 156 Look at that strange fever rash of viatic tabulation in which I persevered.
1976 V. Nabokov Details of Sunset 74 I love the process of settling into viatic quarters—the cool linen of the berth, the slow passage of the station's departing lights.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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