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VEHICLE. 78 VEHICULUM.
roost agreeable and beneficial Vehicle for such Medicines.
177J pERCiVAL Ess. (1777) I. 72 A sufficient dose of the
medicine cannot be given on account of the heating nature
of its vehicle. 1816 A. C Hutchison Pract. Obs. Surg.
(i8a6) 169 The Doctor., exhibited tohtnx an ounce of castoroil,
uncovered by any vehicle. 1875 H. C. Wood Thtrap.
(1870)31 The dried petals.. are almost destitute of therapeuue
virtues, but their preparations arc used as elegant
vehicles.
fig. i66< BovLE Occas. Refl, (1S48) 19 Both these pleasing
Vehicles, if I may so call them, and Correctives of Reproofs
(etcj. 1751 Johnson Rambler No. 87 p 3 With what
vehicles to disguise the caiharticks of the soul. 1755 H.
Walpole Z^//. (1846) III. i8i The invasion.. I really believe
was dressed up for a vehicle (as the apothecaries call it) to
make us swallow the treaties. 1844 Wardlaw yr^Tr'. (1869)
II. 102 If we have a bitter, .medicine to administer, we are
desirous, .to convey it in a pleasant vehicle.
b. In general use.
1609 Evelyn Acetarja (1729) 149 There ought to be one
of the Dishes, in which to beat and mingle the liquid
Vehicles, and a second to receive the crude Herbs in. 17*5
Fnm. Did. S.V. Malt-Lifuor, The Substance of high dry'd
Malts, which retain many fiery Particles in their Contexture,
and are therefore best lost in a smooth Vehicle. 1831 J.
Davies Mat. Med. 376 It is.. soluble.. in more than 2000 of
cold water, and 9000 of this vehicle when boiling. 1901
Brit. Med. yml. No. 2097. 39 When the crusts [of eczema]
form, acid, salicyl., in a vetiicle of olive oil, is useful.
C. Painting. A fluid (as water, oil, etc.) with
which pigments are mixed for use.
1787 Trans. S&c. Arts V. 10^ The well known disadvantages
that Paintings in Oil he under, have rendered the
discovery of some other Vehicle an object of attentive
enquiry. 1807 J. Opie in Led. Art iv. {1848) 320 Colours.
little muddled by vehicles. _>8^ Gullick & Times Paint.
202 The term ' vehicle ', which is borrowed from pharmacy,
is applied in art to the fluid employed to bring pigments
into a proper working state. 1883 R. Haldane Workshop
Receipts Ser. il 427/1 A perfect vehicle mixes readily with
the pigment.
2. That which serves as a means of transmission,
or as a material embodiment or manifestation, of
something : a. With reference to matter or physical
conditions.
1650 BuLWER Anihropomet. 117 Drink may not be only
esteemed the Vehicle of aliment. 1683 Trvon Way to
Health 265 To_ cleanse and purifie those grosser Excrements,
the Vehickles (or Lodgings) of malignant Spirits.
1749 Fielding Tom Jones x. ii, As fa, la, la, ra, da, &c. are
in music, only as the vehicles of sound, and without any
fixed ideas. 2779 J. Moore Vietv Soc. Fr. (17S9) I. xxvii,
221 If the water be in reality the vehicle of this disease.
i8«3 Sir H. Daw Agric. Chem. (1814I 239 Water, as it is
the vehicle of the nourishment of the plant, is the substance
principally given off by the leaves. 1841 Myers Cath. Th.
in. % 14. 52 There is a considerable portion of all natural
food .. serving rather for the vehicle than for the substance
of our support. 1874 Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. i. (1879) 3
That more advanced Philosophy of the present day, which
regards Matter merely as the vehicle of rorce,
b. In Other contexts.
1786 Mme. D'Arblav Diaiy 8 Aug., To receive a favour
through the vehicle of insolent ostentation—no ! no ! 1796
Morse Amer. Geog. I. 297 They viewed the tea as a vehicle
of an unconstitutional tax. 1870 Dale Week-day Serm. xx.
51 Making the very form of Christian forgiveness the vehicle
of revenge. 1876 Geo. Eliot Dan. Der, IV. llx. 183 It is.
possible to feel gratitude even where we discern a mistake
that may have been injurious, the vehicle of the mistake
being an affectionate intention prosecuted through a lifetime
of kindly offices.
c A substance employed as a material in or on
which some work is executed.
1837 Hallam Hist. Lit. i. i. § 58 The more extended use
of p.iper as the vehicle of writing instead of parchment.
i8«io Mrs. Jameson Leg. Monast. Ord. 441 'I'he whole
[picture] has been significantly described as a ' parody of
Divine love". The vehicle, white marble,— its place in a
Christian church,^-enhance all its vileness.
3. A means or medium by which ideas or impressions
are communicated or made known ; a
medium of expression or utterance.
a 165a J. Smith Sel. Disc. iv. 123 A spiritual kind of
vehicle, whereby corporeal impressions are transferred to
the mind. 13^09 T. Robinson Vindic. Mosaick Syst. Intiod.
7 Philosophical Mythology, .a more agreeable Vehicle,
found out for the conveying to us the Truth and Reason of
Things. 176a in \oth Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I. 347
It might not be improper to contradict it by some vehicle
of the publick papers. 1836 Thirlwall Greece xii. II. 138
But a metrical vehicle did not so well suit Zeno's dialectic
Itenius. 1887 Saintsburv Hist. Elizah. Lit. x. (1890) 378
Quarles was a kind of journalist to whom the vehicle of
verse came more easily than the vehicle of prose.
b. Const, of.
1687 Dryden Hind ^ P. in. 106 And alms are but the
vehicles of pray'r. 1688 J, H. Stevenson Mr. Bays
Pref. A 2, Rhyme (which he very Judiciously somewhere
calls the Vehicle of Nonsense). 1751 Johnson Rambler
No. 121 p i^ Allegory is perhaps one of the most pleasing
vehicles of mstruction. 1781 Cowper Charity 625 Did
charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue,
truth, and love. i8» Hazlitt Table-T. Ser, 11. xv. (1869)
305 Music is not made the vehicle of poetry, but poetry of
music. 1856 Merivale Ros/r. Rmp. xxii. (1865) III. 40 In
the common intercourse of life Greek became a fashionable
vehicle of expression. 1885 Clodd Myths 9f Dr. i. iv. 77
The myths . . yielded themselves with ease as vehicles of new
ideas.
o. Const, to or for.
17*1 Wollaston Relig. Nature v. 123 Words seem to be
as it were bodies or vehicles to the sense or meaning.
?7S3-4 Richardson Grandison I. xii. 67 You consider skill
in Languages then as a Vehicle to Knowledge—Not I pre.
same as Science itself, 1836 Thirlwall Greece xii. (1839)
II. 141 It is extremely doubtful how far they were ever used
I as a vehicle for the exposition of theological doctrines differing
from the popular creed, c 1850 Kingsley Misc. (i860) I.
385 Which makes it. .afar better vehicle, .for many forms of
thought. 1877 DowDEN Shaks. Primer xv, 45 In the same
play, rhyme is often employed as a vehicle for generalising
reflections.
4. The form, the material or other shape, in which
something spiritual is embodied or manifested.
Fretj. News 26 Dec. 5/2 Vehicular traffic was almost
entirely suspended.
e. Of the nature of, serving as, a vehicle.
1807 Byron Lei, to Miss Pigot Aug., Places inaccessible
to vehicular conveyances. 1844 Emerson Ess., Poet, All
language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, .for coo.
veyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. 1871
Lvtton Coming Race xiv. They prefer their wings, for
travel,, .to vehicular conveyances.
1 2. Invested with a vehicle or special form ;
embodied. Obs.
1656 S. Holland Zara (1719) 29 That every Grove, Grot
and Stream has its tutelar and vehicular Deity, a 1774
Tucker Lt, Nat, 11. xxi. 47 We may gather that the
rational soul is compleatly formed, .before entrance into the
human body, and that the fashion and lineaments it afterwards
takes.. are not necessary for iis subsistence in the
vehicular state. Ibid. xxvi. 140 To behold the wonders of
the vehicular state, and boundless glories of the mundane
soul.
Hence Tehi'ctQarly adv.
i88a Sala Amer. Revis. x. 130/1 Pullman the beneficent
did not fail., to be vehicularly manifest on the train which
conveyed us from Washington to Philadelphia.
Vehi'OUlary, fl. rare-^, [7id.\^itL.veki€t{idri-
«j.] «= Vehicular a. i c.
183s J. Knowles Diet., Litter^ a kind of vehiculary bed.
Vehi'cnlate, v, rare. [f. L. vehicul-um VE-
HICLE sb, : see -ATE 3.] a. trans. To carry or
convey in, or as in, a vehicle. In quots. fig. b,
intv. To travel, to ride or drive, in a vehicle.
1660 Waterhouse Arms ff Arm. 27 Giving.. a document
to mortal menageries, which are then only vehiculated to
their central point. Ibid. 195 For this courage which
vehiculates his attempts, and occasions his glory, is God's
royal donative. 1843 Carlvle Past ^ Pres. ii. i, The
vehicle for truth, or fact of some sort,— which surely a man
should first try various other ways of vehlculating, and
conveying safe.
Vehiculated, ///. a. rai-e-'^. [Cf. prec]
Invested with form; embodied.
a 1727 J. Revnolds View o/Death (1735) 89 There may
be vehiculated Spirits, of very different orders.
Vehicula *tion. [f. as Vehiculate v. : see
-ATION, and cf. med.L. vehicnlatio.'\ Conveyance
by means ofa vehicle or vehicles ; vehicular activity
or traffic.
1834 Gen. p. Thompson Exerc. (1842} III. 148 By a sort of
parallel to the Game Laws, certain modes of vehiculation
were to be peculiar to the magnificos. 1851 Carlvle in Ne%v
Review Dec. (1891) 482 Boulevards very stirring, airy, locomotive
to a fair degree, but the vehiculation very light. x866
— .£. Irving in Remin, (1881) 11. 212 The New Road with
its lively traffic and vehiculation. 1895 Daily Chron. 12
Nov. 4/4 We know of nothing more handsome or inviting in
the literature of vehiculation.
Vehi'CUlatory, a, [f. as prec. : see -dry K'l
Of the nature of, pertaining or relating to, vehicles.
1851 Carlyle Sterling i. viii, He would accumulate.,
logical swim-bladders, . . and other precautionary and vehiculatory
gear, for setting out. 1865 — Fredk.Gt. xix. v. (1872)
VIII. \-]j To cart from Bohemia such a cipher of human rations
daily . . will surpass all the vehiculatory power of Daun.
t Vehicule. Obs.-'^ [a. F. vihicule or ad. L.
vehiculum : see next.] = Vehicle sb. i.
1541 Copland Galyeu^s Terap. 2 H ij b. Of theyr sodayne
passynge as a vehicule, with y' there is hunny it noyeth nat
the viceie.
Now rare or Obs. PI. vehi-
II Vehiculum.
cxUa ; also 7 -aes. [L. : see Vehicle sb^
1. ^ Vehicle sb. i. Also^^. and trans/.
1614 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 1. vii. 33
The Dose is one dram in any proper Liquor or Vehiculum
to swallow it down with. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. L
§ 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 sb. 6. In quots. fig*
1633 Prvnne I.J/ Pt. Hisirio-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 sb. 2.
165a AsHMOLE Theat, Chem. Annot. 451 She is the Planet
neerest the Earth, and appointed as it were the Vehxcuiuni