Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Going on foot; not winged.

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

  • adjective obsolete Going on foot; not winged.

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  • adjective obsolete Going on foot; not winged.

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Examples

  • In the sugar district Estwick Evans when on his "pedestrious tour" in 1817 found the shores of the Mississippi from a hundred miles above New Orleans to twenty miles below the city in a high state of cultivation.

    American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905

  • Kach of these, however, may again be divided into species; as, for instance, the winged, the pedestrious, and the aquatic.

    Works Aristotle, Thomas Taylor 1812

  • For animal is consequent to every man, and to the whole of that which is pedestrious; but man is not consequent to every thing pedestrious.

    Works Aristotle, Thomas Taylor 1812

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