vituline

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If a double allowance of vituline brains deserve such honor, there are few commentators on Shakespeare that would have gone afoot, and the trumpets of Messieurs Heminge and Condell call up in our minds too many monstrous and deformed associations.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or resembling veal or a calf.

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  • "Well said, most vituline -- _Solomon secundus_, well said." —  The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
  • If a double allowance of vituline brains deserve such honor, there are few commentators on Shakespeare that would have gone afoot, and the trumpets of Messieurs Heminge and Condell call up in our minds too many monstrous and deformed associations. —  Among My Books First Series
  • I think, Master Edward, the Boy-god has already taken occupation; the vituline affection for the fair Katsey has set in; heigho, what a delightful period of life is that soft and lickful one of calf love, when the tongue rolls about the dripping lips, the whites of the eyes are turned towards the divine, the ox-eyed Katsey, and you are ready to stagger over and blare out the otherwise unutterable affection. " —  The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
  • If a double allowance of vituline brains deserve such honor, there are few commentators on Shakspeare that would have gone afoot, and the trumpets of Messieurs Heminge and Condell call up in our minds too many monstrous and deformed associations. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
 

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  1. Latin vitulīnus, from vitulus, calf; see vitellus.

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  1. from Latin vitulinus, of or pertaining to a calf or veal, from vitulus, a calf: see veal.
 

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/ˈvɪtjulɪn/
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