aurigal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aurīgālis, from aurīga (“charioteer”).

Adjective

aurigal (not comparable)

1. (rare) Of or pertaining to a chariot.
   • 1829, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Disowned:

     […] the established thoroughfare for equestrian and aurigal travellers.

   • 1857, Notes and Queries, Series 2, Vol. 4‎^[1], London: Bell & Daldy, page 205:

     I cannot help thinking that some incipient Jehu […] must have adopted the term furnished by Ainsworth to his new aurigal arrangement.

   • 2017, Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado, “Opening Address to the Varian Symposium”, in Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado, editor, Varian Studies Volume Three: A Varian Symposium, →ISBN, page 12:

     No evidence exists of his [Elagabalus's] alleged sexual versatility, of his averred convivial extravagance, of his famed aurigal or saltatory prowess, or of his reportedly wicked sense of humour.

   • 2019, Paul W. Kroll, “Lexical Landscapes and Textual Mountains in the High T’ang”, in Paul W. Kroll, editor, Critical Readings on Tang China, Vol. 3, Brill, →ISBN, page 1037:

     To return to Li Po and round out his views in poetry of the Lu Shan waterfall, we need only refer first to a couplet in his “Lu Mountain Ballad, Sent to ‘Emptyboat’ Lu, Aurigal Attendant,” so ably discussed by Elling Eide.

References

• “aurigal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.