Obs. rare. [the prec. sb. used attrib.] Of style or language (after L. pedester): Prosaic, ‘low,’ without elevation.
1582. Stanyhurst, Poems, Ps. iii., note (Arb.), 131. Bvt of al theese bace and foot verses (so I terme al sauluing thee Heroical and Elegiacal) thee Saphick, too my seeming, hath thee prehemynencye.
1604. Hieron, Preachers Plea, Serm. (1614), 535. For a man (saith hee [Jerome]) that handleth holy matters, a lowe and (as it were) a foote oration [pedestris oratio] is necessarie, and not such as is thickned with artificiall framing of words.
