aurigal

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adjective

Of or pertaining to a chariot.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

adjectiveaurigal (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerareOf or pertaining to a chariot.

    […]the established thoroughfare for equestrian and aurigal travellers.

    1829, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Disowned
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    I cannot help thinking that some incipient Jehu […] must have adopted the term furnished by Ainsworth to his new aurigal arrangement.

    1857, Notes and Queries, Series 2, Vol. 4, London: Bell & Daldy, page 205

    No evidence exists of his [Elagabalus's] alleged sexual versatility, of his averred convivial extravagance, of his famed aurigal or saltatory prowess, or of his reportedly wicked sense of humour.

    2017, Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado, “Opening Address to the Varian Symposium”, in Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado, editor, Varian Studies Volume Three: A Varian Symposium, →ISBN, page 12

    To return to Li Po and round out his views in poetry of the Lu Shan waterfall, we need only refer first to a couplet in his “Lu Mountain Ballad, Sent to ‘Emptyboat’ Lu, Aurigal Attendant,” so ably discussed by Elling Eide.

    2019, Paul W. Kroll, “Lexical Landscapes and Textual Mountains in the High T’ang”, in Paul W. Kroll, editor, Critical Readings on Tang China, Vol. 3, Brill, →ISBN, page 1037

Origin

  1. Latinaurīgālis
  2. Englishaurigal

Borrowed from Latin aurīgālis, from aurīga (“charioteer”).

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APA

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Chicago

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