“pedestrial”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

pedestrial

释义

peˈdestrial, a.
[f. L. pedester on foot, going on foot (f. ped-em foot, pedes footman) + -al¹.]
†1. On foot, going on foot, pedestrian. Obs.
1611Coryat Crudities 289 Statues of worthy personages, partly equestriall, partly pedestriall.1632Lithgow Trav. vi. 252 All..being mounted on Mules saue onely pedestriall I.1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 29 Not a stones cast further, sleepes Tom Coriats bones, consumed in his pedestriall, ill contrived Pilgrimage.
†2. Of archery: Performed with the bow drawn against the foot. Obs.
1792Moseley Ess. Archery iv. 86 A curious expedient of this pedestrial Archery, used by the Ethiopians in hunting Elephants.Ibid. 93 The facts relating to pedestrial Archery.
3. Fitted for walking; as, the pedestrial legs of a crab.
1890in Cent. Dict.
Hence peˈdestrially adv., on foot.
1632W. Lynnesay in Lithgow Trav. B iij, A length of no such course, by ten to one, Which thou thy selfe pedestrially hast gone.1864in Webster.

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