Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or practice of driving a chariot or coach.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The act of driving a chariot or a carriage.

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  • noun The act of driving a chariot or a carriage.

Etymologies

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From Latin aurigatio, from aurigare "to be a charioteer", from auriga.

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Examples

  • If a man indulges in the vicious habit of sleeping, all the skill in aurigation of Apollo himself, with the horses of Aurora to execute his notions, avails him nothing.

    The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc Thomas De Quincey 1822

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