Definition of "vicinal" []

• Of, belonging to, or restricted to a limited area or neighborhood; local. (adjective)
• Relating to or being a local road. (adjective)
• Mineralogy Approximating, resembling, or taking the place of a fundamental crystalline form or face. (adjective)
• Chemistry Of or relating to the consecutive positions of substituted elements or radicals on a benzene ring. (adjective)

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• "If I were to follow my poor Joliet through all his transmigrations and metempsychoses, as I have learned them by his hints, allusions and confessions, I should show him by turns working a rope ferry, where the stupid and indolent cattle, whose business it is to draw men, were drawn by him; then letter-carrier; supernumerary and call-boy in a village theatre; road-mender on a vicinal route; then a beadle,"
• "A people has, therefore, a twofold location, an immediate one, based upon their actual territory, and a mediate or vicinal one, growing out of its relations to the countries nearest them."
• "What is the difference between a natural and a vicinal location?"