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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
muscular \mus"cular\, a. cf. f. musculaire. see muscle.
   1. of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles;
      consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as,
      muscular fiber.
      1913 webster

            great muscular strength, accompanied by much
            awkwardness.                          --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   2. performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
      "the muscular motion." --arbuthnot.
      1913 webster

   3. well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
      muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
      muscular body or arm.
      1913 webster

   muscular christian, one who believes in a part of religious
      duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state.
      --t. hughes.

   muscular christianity.
      a the practice and opinion of those christians who
          believe that it is a part of religious duty to
          maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who
          therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as
          conductive to good health, good morals, and right
          feelings in religious matters. --t. hughes.
      b an active, robust, and cheerful christian life, as
          opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. --c. kingsley.

   muscular excitability physiol., that property in virtue
      of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated;
      irritability; contractility.

   muscular sense physiol., muscular sensibility; the sense
      by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our
      muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of
      the position of the various parts of our bodies and the
      resistance offering by external objects.
      1913 webster
see also:
muscle muscular christian muscular christianity muscular excitability muscular sense 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
muscular
     adj 1: of or relating to or consisting of muscle; "muscular
            contraction"
     2: having a robust muscular body-build characterized by
        predominance of structures bone and muscle and connective
        tissue developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer
        syn: mesomorphic ant: ectomorphic, endomorphic
     3: having or suggesting great physical power or force; "the
        muscular and passionate fifth symphony"
     4: of a person possessing physical strength and weight;
        rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular
        boxer"; "powerful arms" syn: brawny, hefty, powerful,
         sinewy
see also:
mesomorphic ectomorphic endomorphic brawny hefty powerful 
sinewy 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
34 moby thesaurus words for "muscular":
   herculean, able-bodied, athletic, beefy, brawny, broad-shouldered,
   burly, elastic, fibrous, flexible, husky, mighty, muscle-bound,
   powerful, resilient, robust, ropy, rugged, sinewy, springy,
   stalwart, stout, strapping, stringy, strong, sturdy, supple, thewy,
   thickset, well-built, well-knit, well-set, well-set-up, wiry





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