a. rare. [ad. L. vitulīnus, f. vitulus calf. Cf. F. vituline (Balzac).] Of or belonging to a calf or calves; resembling that of a calf.
Vitular, vitulary, with similar sense, are recorded in the Cent. Dict. and other recent Dicts.
1656. Blount, Glossogr.
1786–1805. Tooke, Purley (1829), II. 444. Calf … Vituline.
1860. Wraxall, Life in Sea, ii. 27. In spite of their [i.e., seals’] clumsy form, the vituline countenance wears an expression of calmness and peace.
1870. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. I. (1873), 167. If a double allowance of vituline brains deserve such honor, there are few commentators on Shakespeare that would have gone afoot.
