Without stopping to discuss the obvious results of a contrasted zonal location, such as that between Labrador and Yucatan, the Kola Peninsula and Spain, it is necessary to keep in mind always the effect of vicinal location.
The unifying effect of vicinal location is greatly enhanced if the neighboring people are grouped about an enclosed sea which affords an easy highway for communication.
The stronger the vicinal location, the more dependent is the people upon the neighboring states, but the more potent the influence which it can, under certain circumstances, exert upon them.
The contrasted grouping is reflected in both, the lower animals and the peoples inhabiting these respectively vicinal and remote lands.
Sidenote: Vicinal groups of similar or diverse race and culture.
Vicinal location about an enclosed basin produces more rapidly a unification of race and culture, when some ethnic relationship and affinity already exists among the peoples inhabiting its shores.
A large area means varied vicinal locations and hence differentiation of civilization, at least along the frontier.
In other words, such conditions present the pre-eminent advantages ofvicinal location around an enclosed sea.
Here location at the two extremities of the peninsula has involved a striking difference in ethnic infusions in the two districts, different historical careers owing to different vicinal grouping, and dissimilar geographic conditions.
It is only twenty minutes from Ostend on the Vicinal railway, which has a special station for golfers near the Club House.
Near Coxyde, and at the corner where the road from Furnes turns in the direction of La Panne, is a piece of waste ground which travellers on the Vicinal railway pass without notice.
Vicinal faces of this character are formed during the growth of crystals, and have been studied by H.
The sides of the pits and elevations are bounded by small faces which have the character of vicinal faces.
The second, afterwards called Ermyn Street, left the City at Bishopsgate and ran through Lincoln to York, a third road called the Vicinal Way ran into the eastern counties, and by way of London Bridge Watling Street was connected with Dover.
They advanced cautiously: they found themselves on a firm road, the Vicinal Way, covered with grass: they expected the sight of an enemy on the wall: none appeared.
Used also to call fowls--the second form in the vicinal English, in which a male fowl is often called a hé-biddy.
One or two benzene nuclei may suffer condensation with the furfurane, thiophene and pyrrol rings, the common carbon atoms being vicinal to the hetero-atom.
Of the tri-derivatives the symmetrical compounds boil at the lowest temperature, the asymmetric next, and the vicinal at the highest.
One day, however, because nothing remains always undiscovered, there came along the great Vicinal Way so tough and strong, on which the tooth of Time gnawed in vain, a troop of East Saxons.
Then the gates of the Vicinal Way and that of the Bridge were closed.
What is the difference between a natural and a vicinal location?
Natural versus Vicinal Location in National Development[115] In contradistinction to continental and intercontinental location, anthropogeography recognizes two other narrower meanings of the term.
A defeated commander near Wigan had the great Roman road for retreat either to the north or south, besides the vicinal ways to Manchester and Ribchester.
What I have to say is this: that if a severe struggle took place near the tumulus to which I have referred, the routed army, following the Roman vicinal way to Ribchester, would pass by the locality, which is not far distant.
A Roman vicinal way, from Wigan to Blackburn, or Mellor, where it joins the main highway from Manchester to Ribchester, passes near it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vicinal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: approaching; approximate; burning; close; hot; intimate; near; nearing; nigh; proximate; warm
