[f. VAULT v.2] That vaults or leaps.
1605. Shaks., Macb., I. vii. 27. Vaulting Ambition, which ore-leapes it selfe, And falles on th’other.
1637. B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, II. i. Allbe he know her, As doth the vauting Hart his venting Hind.
1847. H. Miller, First Impr. Eng., xiii. (1857), 217. Such always is the vaulting liberty of a false theology.
1868. Isabelle Saxon, Five Years Golden Gate 52. So wild are the speculations, and so vaulting is the ambition of the majority of business men.
1887. Stevenson, Misadv. J. Nicholson, i. 3. It could not come, without vaulting hyperbole, under the rubric of a gilded saloon.
b. Vaulting monkey: (see quots.).
1800. Shaw, Gen. Zool., I. I. 51. Vaulting Monkey, Simia Petaurista.
1871. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., I. 109. The White-nosed Monkey (Cercopithecus petaurista)…. Some call it the Vaulting Monkey.
Hence Vaultingly adv.
1890. Temple Bar, Jan., 147. The Niobe was vaultingly ambitious.
