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locomotion|ləʊkəˈməʊʃən|
[f. L. locō (see locomotive) + mōtiōn-em motion. Cf. F. locomotion, Sp. locomocion, It. locomozione.]
1. The action or power of moving from one place to another; progressive motion of an animal.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. i. 104 All progression or animall locomotion being (as Aristotle teacheth) performed tractu & pulsu. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 39 The Animal Spirits are the Soul's immediate instrument in all Loco-motion. 1704New Pract. Piety 38 He has fix'd the Laws of Loco-motion in Corporeal Substances. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 134 This personal liberty consists in the power of loco-motion, of changing situation, or removing one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination may direct; without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 395 But what is to be understood by coming to the Father? Not a locomotion surely; for..God is omnipresent. 1817J. Evans Excurs. Windsor, etc. 451 The Oyster..was once thought to have no power of loco-motion, but it is now ascertained, that it can move from place to place. 1856Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. I. ii. 46 One office of the cerebellum is to combine the action of the voluntary muscles for the purpose of locomotion. 1872Huxley Physiol. vii. 157 Movement..of the body as a whole..is termed locomotion. 1881J. S. Burdon-Sanderson in Nature No. 619. 44 Those [sc. organs] of locomotion are no doubt more complicated than those of respiration or circulation.
2. Movement from place to place, esp. by artificial means; travel; also, the means of travelling.
1788R. Graves Recoll. Shenstone 96 An excursion to London, upon the footing that loco-motion then was..was a matter of some importance. 1820Edin. Rev. XXXIII. 77 Taxes upon warmth, light and locomotion. 1835Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 31, I have no taste whatever for locomotion, by earth, air, or sea. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 370 Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually. 1852H. Rogers Ess. I. vii. 335 He spent his days in a far greater variety of scenes than usually vary the lot of a philosopher, and indulged prodigiously in locomotion. 1874Helps Soc. Press. ix. 131 Locomotion having so greatly increased and improved, the dwelling-place has become..of less importance. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 194 The inequality of the ground in our country is more adapted to locomotion on foot.
3. Progressive movement of an inanimate body.
1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 1234 A new system of locomotion for railways. 1854Tomlinson tr. Arago's Astron. 107 We have now to inquire whether the annual revolution of the sun is real, or whether this too is not an appearance caused by the earth's locomotion. |