omnibus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒmnɪbəs/
ipa: /ˈɑmnɪbəs/
rhymes: -ɪbəs
Forms: form: omnibuses
form: omnibusses
form: omnibusing
form: omnibussing
form: omnibused
form: omnibused
form: omnibussed
form: omnibussed
Etymology: Borrowed from French (voiture) omnibus (“(carriage) for all”), from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).
Senses: examples: text: In the tax levy measure were omnibused all appropriations for the maintenance of government for the fiscal year.
ref: 1927, Denis Tilden Lynch, chapter XXIII, in “Boss” Tweed: The Story of a Grim Generation, New York, N.Y.: Boni & Liveright, →OCLC; reprinted New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2002, →ISBN, page 283:
glosses: To combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package.
examples: text: I'm two shillings short of usual rainy-day fares, and not a passenger is out, I'm certain—least ways can I see him, if there was. It's nice business, omnibusing is—in summer time!
ref: 1857, A[braham] Oakey Hall, “Trot the Seventh.—A New York Omnibus has a Singular Fare on a Stormy Night, and what Came of It”, in Old Whitey’s Christmas Trot. A Story for the Holidays, New York, N.Y.: Published by Harper & Brothers, Pearl Street, Franklin Square, →OCLC, page 93:
glosses: To drive an omnibus.
examples: text: [W]hat would not be the effect on the goods, and even on the passenger traffic, of the Grand Junction and London and Birmingham lines, if two miles of the rails were to-morrow taken up through the town of Birmingham, so that the first (good) had all to be carted, and the second (passengers) had all to be omnibused, over the breach! Yet, such is the present state of the communication at Manchester!
ref: 1842 February 12, “Observator” [pseudonym], “Liverpool and Manchester and Manchester and Leeds Railways [letter]”, in Supplement to The Railway Times, volume V, number 7, part II (number 215 from the start), London: Printed by John Thomas Norris, 137 and 138, Aldersgate street, in the Parish of St. Botolph Without, Aldersgate, in the City of London, and published by him at the Railway Times Office, No. 122, Fleet-street, (facing Saint Bride's Church), in the Parish of Saint Bride's, Fleet-street, Middlesex, →OCLC, page 178:
english: letter
translation: letter
text: […] Sharon Springs are five hours from Albany, three by railroad, and two by stage-coach. Passengers arrive in time to dress comfortably for dinner. The drive up is not particularly picturesque, but it is through woods and fields, and this, as a change from omnibusing between sidewalks and brick walls, is, at least, refreshing.
ref: 1848 June 15, N[athaniel] Parker Willis, “[Letters from Watering-places.] Letter I.”, in Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure, Written in the Intervals of More Hurried Literary Labor, Detroit, Mich.: Kerr, Doughty & Lapham, published 1853, →OCLC, page 309:
text: Two days I hired a carriage and showed them all distant places, such as Bois de Boulogne, Longchamps, Champ de Mars, Invalides, and some of the outer boulevards, Gobelins, Père La Chaise, Jardin de Plantes; but generally we omnibussed it, and for a few sous each you can get any distance along and athwart the city.
ref: 1871, W. Justin O'Driscoll, chapter VI, in A Memoir of Daniel Maclise, R.A., London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 68:
text: [John] Virtue has often sung his ode to pollution; the artist's friend. Whether to embrace or reject the begrimed air, the half-choked light has historically sorted out the men from the boys in London painters. […] Claude Monet was in two minds about it, cursing it from his room in the Savoy in 1899 for blotting out the fugitive sun. Yet by far the strongest of his paintings – completed in a studio a long, long way from the Thames – were the greeny-grey early-morning images of crowds tramping and omnibussing their way to work over hostile bridges, unblessed by even a hint of watery sunshine.
ref: 2005, Simon Schama, in Simon Schama; Paul Moorhouse; Colin Wiggins, John Virtue: London Paintings, London: National Gallery Company, page 23
glosses: To travel or be transported by omnibus.