a. [f. VOCATION + -AL.] Of, pertaining or relating to, a vocation or occupation.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 204. It [i.e., prophecy] was a gift, or grace, not so much personal as vocational; pertaining not to ordinary duty so much as extraordinary occasion.
a. 1732. T. Boston, Crook in Lot (1805), 16. It may fall in the vocational part. Whatever is men’s calling or station … the crook in their lot may take its place therein.
1865. Athenæum, 27 May, 715/3. With these appear the Tilewrights, a vocational name of Saxon Origin, and the Mayers.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., ix. 159. The classes, whether social, vocational, or educational.
Hence Vocationally adv.
1890. Clark Russell, Nelson, xvi. 229. The seamanship of those days, the strategies, the devices,… are no longer of the least value vocationally.
