vectitationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

vectitation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Transport.
   • a. 1745, Alexander Pope, “Memoirs of the Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus”, in The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. […], London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton […], published 1751, →OCLC, page 122:

     “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.”

   • 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 60:

     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.

   • 1928 [1486], Heinrich Kramer, Montague Summers, transl., Malleus Maleficarum, page 104:

     And 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.

関連する語

• vection

Further reading

• “vectitation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.