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adjective

Muscular adj.

1.

Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber. "Great muscular strength, accompanied by much awkwardness."

2.

Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles. "The muscular motion."

3.

Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a muscular body or arm.

Muscular Christian, one who believes in a part of religious duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state.

Muscular Christianity.

(a)

The practice and opinion of those Christians who believe that it is a part of religious duty to maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as conductive to good health, good morals, and right feelings in religious matters.

(b)

An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as opposed to a meditative and gloomy one.

Muscular excitability (Physiol.), that property in virtue of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated; irritability; contractility.

Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of the position of the various parts of our bodies and the resistance offering by external objects.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Muscular" Quotes from Famous Books

... that the door was broken down, and the knight just descended the stair in time to prevent bloodshed betwixt his attendants and the intruders. They were three in number. Their chief was tall, bony, and athletic, his spare and muscular frame, as well as the hardness of his features, marked the course of his life to have been fatiguing and perilous. The effect of his appearance was aggravated by his dress, which consisted of a jack, or jacket, composed of thick buff leather, on which small plates ...

— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

... out of the car was unmistakably Ruth Atheson. Behind her came a raw-boned, muscular woman, and ...

— Charred Wood • Myles Muredach

... beautifully—if beauty is completeness—been identified as nostoc—"It turned out to be lung-tissue also." He wrote to other persons who had specimens, and identified other specimens as masses of cartilage or muscular fibers. "As to whence it came, I have no theory." Nevertheless he endorses the local explanation—and a bizarre thing ...

— The Book of the Damned • Charles Fort

... and muscular tenuity; unsound health from whatever cause; indications of former disease; glandular swellings, or other symptoms of scrofula. 2. Chronic cutaneous affections, especially of the scalp. 3. Severe injuries of the bones of the head; convulsions. 4. Impaired vision, ...

— Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point • Henry Ossian Flipper

... only protected from the ground by yellow slippers. He displayed no farther ornament than one large gold ear-ring, from which depended a pearl, evidently of great price. A noble black beard, about a foot in length, touched his muscular breast. His features were good, with the exception of the eyes, which were somewhat small; their expression, however, was, evil; their glances were sullen; and malignity and ill-nature were painted in every lineament of his countenance, which seemed never to have been brightened with ...

— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow

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