a. and sb. rare. [f. L. viātic-us or -um: see prec. and VIATICUM.] a. adj. Of or pertaining to a way or road; relating to a journey. b. sb. pl. Articles for use on a journey.
1855. Landor, Imag. Conv., Wks. 1876, II. 450. His back would have been bent … under the weight of armour and viaticals which Titus [Livius] carried with him easily and far.
1863. J. G. Baker, N. Yorks. Stud. Bot., etc., 188. Such stations as are denominated by the terms paludal, viatical, agrestal, sylvestral, and septal exist no longer.
