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Definition of Locomotions
1. locomotion [n] - See also: locomotion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Locomotions
Literary usage of Locomotions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Insect Transformations.. by James Rennie (1830)
"Peculiar locomotions. . i ..... i. .' ..^• . • .:•••". r ,-,,•' THOSE who have
attended to the paces of the larger animals, are well aware of their almost ..."
2. The Brain as an Organ of Mind by Henry Charlton Bastian (1880)
"The latter pairs of ganglia are clearly combined in function, since the locomotions
of the Nautilus, like the much more rapid locomotions of other Cepha- ..."
3. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer (1897)
"Higher impressibility must subject the organism to more frequent stimuli to
action; and so must multiply its motions and locomotions. ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1876)
"... object not in contact may lead to complex locomotions in pursuit, followed by
others for capture, and others again for the swallowing of food or prey. ..."
5. Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and by Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862)
"Some few men have surrounded the globe of the earth; yet many in the set locomotions
and movements of their days have measured the circuit of it, ..."
6. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"... these that thirty-five or forty miles were reckoned a day's journey; which
may correct the exaggerated notions of bad roads and tardy locomotions that ..."
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