pedality
nounEtymology From pedal + -ity.
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The anatomical formation of the foot and surrounding region.
- Cloven-footednesse includes pedality.1656, Thomas White, Peripateticall institutions.:
- A rusty brown coat, of antique cut, fitted closely to a long ungainly body; a pair of greasy galligaskins, which had once been gray, rand down into the capacious jaws of a long and large pair of rusty boots; these noticeable articles, from their make, must once have cased the nether extremities of a horseman in Rupert's troop, or have defended the pedalities of some old smuggler for many a long year.1837 December, William E. Burton, “The Man in the Big Boots”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 1, number 6, page 412:
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- There is really no difference between the formation of the lower pedalities of a pure dandy, and those of a pure Ethiopian. In this anatomical fact lies the great difficulty in the way of modern "squirts".1852 February, Thompson Westcott, “The Physiology of Dandyism”, in Graham's Magazine, volume 40, number 2, page 123:
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Something that is associated with the foot, such as the way it is used (for locomotion or measurement) or the articles of clothing worn on it.
- I was followed by my noble hostess (womewhat more, be it understood, than a middle-aged lady), who gravely sate down, and, bidding me take off my cravat, like Thomson's Musidora—"...from her leg the inverted worsted drew"— pinned it scientifically round my throat, with the comfortable assurance that it would be "no sort of good" unless applied warm from the foot. The kind lady had hardly left, when —unthankful wretch that I was!—I unpinned the pedality, and next morning restored it with my best acknowledgments of its anti-pertussian efficacy.1863, Notes and Queries, page 479:
- Changes in pedality can occur in animals due to injury, congenital defects, or behaviour.2010, James Andrew Smith, Jamil Jivraj, “Preliminary energetics of tripedal and quadrupedal gaits using the garp-4 robot.”, in Symposium on brain, body and machine:
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- (see title)2010., Peter Aerts et al., “Changing pedality in primates: a case of fast ‘loco-morphing’."”, in Proceedings of The Society for Experimental Biology Annual Meeting: