a. Obs. [ad. L. claudicānt-em, pres. pple. of claudicāre: see next.] Lame, halting, limping. lit. and fig.
1624. Irel. Jubilee, in Dibdin, Libr. Comp. (1824), 255. Shall man, their pettie soveraigne, be claudicant and heteroclite?
1671. [R. MacWard], True Non-conf., 184. Such claudicant Arguments.
1708. Brit. Apollo, No. 46. 3/1. Your Claudicant Bride.
