muscularadj.

1673 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 8 6166 He hath..very elaboratly laid open their Nervous, Muscular and Glandulous membrans.

1674 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 9 63 An Ox grows in all and every part of his, whether it be muscular, bony, cartilaginous, nervous, &c. only by grass and plain water.

1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica Pref. sig. b4 The great strength, which the Muscular and Nervous parts acquire by Exercises.

1732 A. Monro Anat. Treat. Nerves 35 in Anat. Humane Bones (ed. 2) The Edges of the..Valves are duplicated with a muscular Corpuscle in the Middle.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 246 It often also hangs by the tail, which is long and muscular.

1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 305 The muscular flesh is less red, and more gelatinous and fibrinous.

1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 6 The mollusca are animals with soft bodies, enveloped in a muscular skin.

1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iv. 492 The muscular walls of the heart are liable to many changes.

1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) xii. 246 Respiration is effected by rhythmical compression and expansion of the muscular pharynx.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xix. 484 The wasting of the muscular fibres is accompanied by an overgrowth of fat among the fibrous tissue.

1990 Health Guardian Nov. 12/4 The heart is the most powerful muscular organ in the body.

1736 J. Thomson Britain: 4th Pt. Liberty 146 The spreading Shoulders, muscular, and broad.

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 15 The muscular proportion'd limb Transformed to a lean shank.

1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel III. ix. xvi. 85 No mind becomes muscular without rude and early exercise.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xix. 71 Look at this broad-shouldered man with the bare muscular arms.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lvii. 415 Young men..stalwart, muscular, dauntless young braves, brimful of push and energy.

a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xix. 330 He..readjusted his once muscular but now loose and pudgy body into a less loaferish posture.

1919 P. G. Wodehouse Their Mutual Child i. i. 16 You seem exceedingly muscular, Mr. Winfield. I noticed that you carried him without an effort.

1991 M. Atwood Wilderness Tips 99 She is relieved not to have to worry about the lawn, or about the ivy pushing its muscular little suckers into the brickwork.

1853 National Mag. June 552/2 Among the common working people, the modern preacher will find some stern principles, stout prejudices, pithy sayings, large capacities of action, some fine specimens of muscular Christianity.

1858 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 190 It is a school of which Mr. Kingsley is the ablest doctor; and its doctrine has been described fairly and cleverly as ‘muscular Christianity’. The principal characteristics of the writer whose works earned this burlesque though expressive description, are his deep sense of the sacredness of all the ordinary relations and the common duties of life, and the vigour with which he contends..for the great importance and value of animal spirits, physical strength, and a hearty enjoyment of all the pursuits and accomplishments which are connected with them.

1858 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 25 101/1 Here our muscular Christian insinuates that [etc.].

1858 C. Kingsley Let. 19 Oct. in Lett. & Mem. Life (1883) 213 [To a clergyman who, in a review, had called him ‘a muscular Christian’] You have used that, to me, painful, if not offensive, term, ‘Muscular Christianity’.]

1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. xiv. 114 Nigel..was also a sportsman. His Christianity was muscular.

1942 J. Lees-Milne Jrnl. 8 Feb. in Ancestral Voices (1975) 18 Eddy..said he had aspirations to muscular Christianity, and with little encouragement would have been coarse.

1966 Listener 27 Oct. 613/2 That muscular Christian, Welldon, who was his [sc. Churchill's] headmaster and housemaster at Harrow.

1970 T. Hilton Pre-Raphaelites v. 133 The tone of the place [sc. the Working Men's College] was heavily muscular-Christian.

1975 J. Blackburn Mister Brown's Bodies xviii. 151 Great hulking fellows... Muscular Christians to a man.

1988 B. Hilton Age of Atonement viii. 332 Carlyle..was steeped in the old corpuscular, not the new muscular, tradition of Christianity.

1811 J. Bell Anat. Human Body (ed. 3) II. 151 In this order are included the muscular arteries, which are the least regular of all the branches of the ophthalmic artery.

1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 613/1 Muscular arteries, arteries that are distributed to the muscles.

1934 E. V. Cowdry Textbk. Histol. vii. 95 The muscular arteries are also described as distributing arteries because they supply blood to various organs and tissues whose requirements are different.

1976 Lab. Investig. 35 23 A distinct arterial lesion was observed in the large abdominal muscular arteries in three autopsied patients.

1999 Surv. Ophthalmol. 43 341 The ciliary ganglion and lateral rectus muscle are both supplied by the lateral muscular artery.

1829 J. Mill Anal. Human Mind I. vii. 33 In most cases of the muscular feelings, there is..great complexity.

1912 W. James Ess. Radical Empiricism vi. 169 Professor Stout..takes me to task for identifying spiritual activity with certain muscular feelings.

1932 Jrnl. Philos. 29 683 The muscular feelings..are in the background, and constitute that ‘consciousness’, additional to the mere datum, which Mr. Lovejoy explains as a conceiving of spatial relations.

1826 Lancet 24 June 408/2 Mr. Mayo's hypothesis about a sensation peculiar to the nerves supplying the muscles ‘muscular sensation’, will at least not hold good for one.

1934 Mod. Psychol. June 14/1 They [sc. blind people] dream by means of auditory, ‘perceptive’, feeling, heat and cold, and muscular sensations.

1990 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 51 577 His point was..that..certain muscular sensations accompanying accommodation and convergence automatically yield a cognition of the appropriate distance.

1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. iii. x. 425 When..a muscular system and a concomitant muscular sense are developed..an immense variety of textures can be known tactually.

1875 G. H. Lewes Probl. Life & Mind II. vi. iv. 481 If I contract my muscles, a peculiar feeling is produced in me by the muscular sense.

1904 E. B. Titchener tr. W. M. Wundt Princ. Physiol. Psychol. vi. 275 Some authors have conjectured that the cerebellum is an organ of what is termed the ‘muscular sense’.

1998 Jrnl. Physiol. 508 635 Muscular sense was represented by the ability to detect the twitch.

1837 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 268 Muscular sound, or the resonance attending sudden muscular contraction [of the heart].

1889 W. H. Preece & J. Maier Telephone 467 Applied to a muscle, the same instrument [sc. Boudet's microphone] becomes an excellent myophone. It indicates the normal muscular sound.

1997 Muscle & Nerve 20 991 We wished to determine whether evoked force output from a human muscle could be inferred from the amplitude and the frequency of evoked muscular sounds.

1681 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Stomachs & Guts viii. 32 in Musæum Regalis Societatis [The Casowary] hath no Gizard (as hath the Ostrich); yet a thick Muscular Stomach.

1851 Encycl. Americana III. 285/1 The gizzard, or muscular stomach, [of the cockroach] is internally provided with strong hooked teeth.

1906 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 171 227 It has been assumed that the plesiosaurs could not have utilized the pebbles as a means of digestion in a muscular stomach.

1992 Physiol. & Behavior 52 261 [The hypothesis that] motility of the crop and muscular stomach are coordinated.

1908 N.E.D. at Muscular a. Muscular tumour.

1973 Ann. Surg. 178 155/1 In many instances the frozen section will be most useful in determining that a lesion is a muscular tumor and not carcinoma or lymphoma.

1986 Jrnl. Neuroimmunol. 11 301 The growth of cerebral and muscular tumours was significantly inhibited in animals immunized subcutaneously.