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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Going
on foot ; notwinged .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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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