Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the power to change its place by its own motor, or without the aid of power or apparatus outside of itself.
  • noun A commercial name for a form of motor-car.

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Examples

  • One of them was the locomobile, the other the horse, but each wanted to be the locomobile, because then she got father's black hat put on for the chimney.

    Dame Care Hermann Sudermann 1892

  • Next morning, when the locomobile was pulled out, a strange rattling, scrunching sound was heard on the threshold of the shed.

    Dame Care Hermann Sudermann 1892

  • The locomobile kept this name forever after in Meyerhofer's house.

    Dame Care Hermann Sudermann 1892

  • Frau Elsbeth mutely shook her head, and went into the house just as the locomobile arrived before the gate.

    Dame Care Hermann Sudermann 1892

  • "Father," he said, modestly, though his heart swelled with pride, "the locomobile is in working order; as soon as the ground has thawed the work on the moor can begin."

    Dame Care Hermann Sudermann 1892

  • Creaking and rattling, the locomobile came staggering out into the yard.

    Dame Care Hermann Sudermann 1892

  • He had found it lying on the locomobile the day the work was begun again, and had carried it about with him ever since.

    Dame Care Hermann Sudermann 1892

  • I had never been so close to an actual locomobile—they’re always passing so rapidly on the streets, and seem so unstable, as if they may explode any second.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • I had never been so close to an actual locomobile—they’re always passing so rapidly on the streets, and seem so unstable, as if they may explode any second.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • I had never been so close to an actual locomobile—they’re always passing so rapidly on the streets, and seem so unstable, as if they may explode any second.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

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  • (adjective) - Having the power to change place, partially or entirely; whence locomobility, the faculty of being locomobile.

    --The Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1889

    January 14, 2018