▪ I. † viˈatic, n. Obs.
In 7 viaticke.
= viaticum.
| 1641 Impeachm. Father Phillips x. A iij b, After a Viaticke, hee was dispatched againe for England, with some few small Gifts. |
▪ II. viˈatic, a. Obs. rare exc. for revived nonce-uses.
[ad. L. viātic-us (rare), f. via way.]
(See quot. 1656.)
| 1656 Blount Glossogr., 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 ― 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. |