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vectitation

vectitation noun: transport.

Noun

vectitation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Transport.
    • “You say well (quoth Albertus) and we have several other kinds of Vectitation unknown to the Ancients; particularly flying Chariots, where the people may have the benefit of this exercise at the small expence of a farthing.”a. 1745 (date written), Alexander Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. […], volume VI, London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton […], published 1751, →OCLC, page 122
    • We had a pic-nic a few days ago, to which they gave me the means of vectitation; that is, a very nice English tilbury, with the younger son, just returned from South America, as a companion.1826 July, Armine S. H. Mountain, “Letter”, in Mrs. Armine S. H. Mountain, editor, Memoirs and Letters of the Late Colonel Armine S. H. Mountain, C. B. […], 2nd edition, published 1858, page 60

Origin of vectitation

From Latin vectitatus (“borne about”), from intensive form of vehere, vectum (“to carry”).

Questions about vectitation

What does vectitation mean?
Vectitation means transport.
What part of speech is vectitation?
Vectitation is a noun.

Words near vectitation in the dictionary

  1. vectigals
  2. vection
  3. vections
  4. vectis
  5. Vectisian
  6. vectitation
  7. vectograph
  8. vectographic
  9. vectographs
  10. vectography
  11. vector

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