Meanings
- obsoleterareuncountableTransport.
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 602 more examples
“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 122And among their chief operations are being bodily transported from place to place, and to practise carnal connexion with Incubus devils, which we shall treat of separately, beginning with their bodily vectitation.
1928 [1486], Heinrich Kramer, translated by Montague Summers, Malleus Maleficarum, page 104
Origin
- Latinvectitatus“borne about”
- Englishvectitation
From Latin vectitatus (“borne about”), from intensive form of vehere, vectum (“to carry”).
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