‖ vehiculum Now rare or Obs.
Pl. vehicula; also 7 -aes.
[L.: see vehicle n.]
1. = vehicle n. 1. Also fig. and transf.
| 1624 Bedell Lett. x. 143 Here is..some truth mingled among, to giue the better grace, and to be as it were the Vehiculum of a lie. 1655 Culpepper, etc. Riverius i. vii. 33 The Dose is one dram in any proper Liquor or Vehiculum to swallow it down with. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §8. 12 We doubt not but to make a Sovereign Antidote against Atheism, out of that very Philosophy, which so many have used as a Vehiculum to convey this Poyson of Atheism by. 1787 Maty tr. Riesbeck's Trav. Germ. III. 76 Burgundy is the standing vehiculum of green pease. |
2. = vehicle n. 6. In quots. fig.
| 1633 Prynne 1st Pt. Histrio-m. 65 Unchast, Obscene, and Amorous wordes, are but so many vehiculaes, to carrie men on to Adulterous and Sinfull deedes. 1642 Howell Instr. Forr. Trav. (Arb.) 59 Speech is the..Ambassador of the mind, and the Tongue the Vehiculum, the Chariot, which conveyeth..the notions of the Mind to Reasons Palace. |
3. = vehicle n. 2.
| 1652 Ashmole Theat. Chem. Annot. 451 She is the Planet neerest the Earth, and appointed as it were the Vehiculum of all other heavenly Influences unto what is Sublunary. 1668 Howe Bless. Righteous 325 Are not the exceeding great and precious promises, the Vehicula, the conveighances of the Divine Nature? |
4. = vehicle n. 4.
| 1656 Stanley Hist. Philos. (1687) 189/1 Having imposed each one his proper Star as a vehiculum. Ibid. 191/1 The rest of the body they appointed as a vehiculum to serve this. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View Nat. IV. 15 Plato..supposes, that into the vehiculum of the soul..is infused..a particular formative virtue, distinct, according to that star. |
5. = vehicle n. 5.
| 1668 Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xvii. 44 The wheyish..exceeds the two excrementitious Cholers, by reason of the Blood, whose vehiculum it was to be. |