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] 1. Of or
pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or
constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular
fiber.

Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
awkwardness.

Macaulay.

2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or
the muscles. "The muscular motion."
Arbuthnot.

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

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.

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