Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Rustic; rural.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a farm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a farm or a village; rural.
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- adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to a
farm orvillage ;rural .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A large rectangular heads-up display darkened in the center of the window, blocking out a portion of the villatic view of the lake and mountains.
Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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The tame villatic fowl scratches and picks with might and main, converting a thousand refuse things into dainty human food.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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Or to describe it in metaphor, it may be said to come midway between the crow of the "tame villatic fowl" and the music of the nightingale in the neighbouring copse or of the skylark singing at heaven's gate.
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Tame, no charm can, 670. the heyday in the blood is, 140. the tongue no man can, 849. villatic fowl, 242.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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It may be supposed that we of Jaalam were not untouched by a feeling of villatic pride in beholding our townsman occupying so large a space in the public eye.
The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855
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It may be supposed that we of Jaalam were not untouched by a feeling of villatic pride in beholding our townsman occupying so large a space in the public eye.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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Then, on another point, we are certain -- namely, that rural thunder is many hundred times more powerful than villatic.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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And nefts in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl; but as an eagle 1695
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
pavonine commented on the word villatic
rural,rustic
November 6, 2007