Professor Strong distinguishes between what he calls 'saltatory' and what he calls 'ambulatory' relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

'saltatory' inside the idea, that terms drawn from experience cannot describe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

If one accepts saltatory evolution, as for instance.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers] Reference

There was a platform at one end, where the musicians sat when saltatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

He believed in saltatory evolution, in polyphyletic descent, and in the greater plasticity of the organism in earlier times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Indeed, no book, however witty, lively, saltatory, can have the volant effects we covet, if it want substance and seriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference

Inheriting the saltatory traditions of their barbarous ancestry, the slaves have also a current fund of superstition, of a simple and curious character.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The leading antonym to “continuous” is “discrete”; other ones are: saltatory, sudden, intermittent, indivisible, atomic, particulate, and even monadic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The bass of this school is a saltatory creature; he is, for the most part, either striding through thirds, or jumping over fifths and octaves, much as he did a hundred years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference

One night he was so delighted with the saltatory skill and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secrets of the Great City] Reference

Nature hates calculators; her methods are saltatory and impulsive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays — Second Series] Reference

Even if saltatory variations do occur, we cannot assume that these.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference

He shifts himself from one foot to another with a saltatory briskness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Albany Depot : a Farce] Reference

"The Frog is a small saltatory Reptile" will probably be the reply of the majority.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

There are various types which have been called the paralytic, the choreic, and the saltatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

For the Greenites space-relations had been saltatory, for me they became thenceforward ambulatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

For a minute or two the young gentleman amused himself by a few light saltatory steps in the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sappho of Green Springs] Reference

But it was during Easter week that the saltatory spirit flared up most brilliantly, — early in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919] Reference

The larger Marsupials like the kangaroos are eminently saltatory, and the others are active in locomotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hormones and Heredity] Reference

The word dance does not well designate the ceremonies, as they are in general more histrionic than saltatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Each temple has a band of eight or ten of these girls, who celebrate their saltatory rites morning and evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales] Reference

"Well, then," I said, "Larkin was an indolent juvenile, fond of mirthfulness and cachinatory and saltatory exercises --".    From Wordnik.com.  [Queer Stories for Boys and Girls] Reference

By degrees Henchard became aware that the measure was trod by some one who out-Farfraed Farfrae in saltatory intenseness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

It was monstrous to be so unreliable, monstrous to be so saltatory, so capricious, as to upset other people's surest reckonings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Old for Dolls A Novel] Reference

The Anura among the Amphibia are saltatory, but their leaps are usually single, or repeated only a few times, not sustained gallops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hormones and Heredity] Reference

Transcendentalist theories left it impossible to traverse by finite knowers, and brought an absolute in to perform the saltatory act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

Willis chafed up and down the room as Captain Hopkinson's peals of laughter hailed his saltatory triumphs, and took up his hat to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Semi-Detached House] Reference

David's saltatory performances before the Ark included "round dances," and partly that the young had not yet mastered its difficulties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cressy] Reference

When our ideas have worked so as to bring us flat up against the object, NEXT to it, 'is our relation to it then ambulatory or saltatory?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

This satisfies my conscience while giving a good lesson to the cat, who is not fond of saltatory feats, now that she is getting into years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gala-days] Reference

I fear that most of my recalcitrant readers fail to recognize that what is ambulatory in the concrete may be taken so abstractly as to appear saltatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

April 12, 2006 saltatory jumps along the axons.    From Wordnik.com.  [purple mountains majesty] Reference

Growling; "they are immensely fond of saltatory motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes] Reference

Plushkin’s servitors performing saltatory feats worthy of the most vigorous of stage-dancers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Souls] Reference

They offer a floor for saltatory conduction.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]