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Volition

VOLI'TION, noun [Latin volitio, from volo, to will. See Will.]

1. The act of willing the act of determining choice, or forming a purpose. There is a great difference between actual volition and approbation of judgment.

Volition is the actual exercise of the power which the mind has of considering or forbearing to consider an idea.

2. The power of willing or determining.

Volitive

VOL'ITIVE, adjective Having the power to will.

They not only perfect the intellectual faculty, but the volitive

Volley

VOL'LEY, noun plural volleys. [Latin volo.]

1. A flight of shot; the discharge of many small arms at once.

2. A burst or emission of many things at once; as a volley of words.

But rattling nonsense to full volleys breaks.

VOL'LEY, verb transitive to discharge with a volley

VOL'LEY, verb intransitive To throw out or discharge at once.

Volleyed

VOL'LEYED, adjective [from volley.] disploded; discharged with a sudden burst; as volleyed thunder.

Volt

VOLT, noun [Latin volutus, volvo.]

1. a round or circular tread; a gait of two treads, made by a horse going sideways round a center.

2. In fencing, a sudden movement or leap to avoid a thrust.

VOLTa, in Italian music, signifies that the part is to be repeated one, two or more times.

Voltaic

VOLTA'IC, adjective Pertaining to Volta, the discoverer of voltaism; as the voltaic pile.

Volatic apparatus, the apparatus used for accumulating galvanic electricity. the agent itself is denominated galvanism, after its discoverer Galvani, while the instruments used for exciting and accumulating it, are called voltaic in honor of Volta, who first contrived this kind of apparatus.

Voltaic pile, a column formed by successive pairs of metallic disks, as silver and zink, with moistened cloth between every two contiguous pairs.

Voltaic battery, the larger forms of voltaic apparatus, used for accumulating galvanic electricity.

Voltaism

VOL'TAISM, noun That branch of electrical science which has its source in the chimical action between metals and different liquids. it is more properly called galvanism, from Galvani, who first proved or brought into notice its remarkable influence on animals.

Volubilate

VOLU'BILATE,

VOL'UBILE, adjective In gardening, a volubilate stem is one that climbs by winding or twining round another body.

Volubile

VOL'UBILE, a. In gardening, a volubilate stem is one that climbs by winding or twining round another body.

Volubility

VOLUBIL'ITY, noun [Latin volubilitas, from volvo, to roll.]

1. The capacity of being rolled; aptness to roll; as the volubility of a bowl.

2. The act of rolling.

By irregular volutibility.

3. Ready motion of the tongue in speaking; fluency of speech.

She ran over the catalogue of diversions with such a volubility of tongue, as drew a gentle reprimand from her father.

4. Mutability; liableness to revolution; as the volubility of human affairs. [Unusual.]

Voluble

VOL'UBLE, adjective [Latin volubilis.]

1. Formed so as to roll with ease, or to be easily set in motion; apt to roll; as voluble particles of matter.

2. Rolling; having quick motion.

This less voluble earth.

3. Nimble; active; moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; fluent; as a flippant, voluble tongue.

4. Fluent; flowing with ease and smoothness; as a voluble speech.

5. Having fluency of speech.

Cassio, a knave very voluble

Volubly

VOL'UBLY, adverb In a rolling or fluent manner.

Volume

VOL'UME, noun [Latin volumen, a roll; volvo, to roll. to make u long, in this word, is palpably wrong.]

1. Primarily a roll, as the ancients wrote on long strips of bark, parchment or other material, which they formed into rolls or folds. Of such volumes, Ptolemy's library in Alexandria contained 3 or 700, 000.

2. A roll or turn; as much as is included in a roll or coil; as the volume of a serpent.

3. Dimensions; compass; space occupied; as the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.

4. A swelling or spherical body.

The undulating billows rolling their silver volumes.

5. A book; a collection of sheets of paper, usually printed or written paper, folded and bound, or covered. A book consisting of sheets once folded, is called a folio, or a folio volume; of sheets twice folded, a quarto; and thus according to the number of leaves in a sheet, it is called an octavo, or a duodecimo. The Scriptures or sacred writings, bound in a single volume are called the Bible. The number of volumes in the Royal Library, in rue de Richlieu, at Paris, is variously estimated. It is probable it may amount to 400, 000.

An odd volume of a set of books, bears not the value of its proportion to the set.

6. In music, the compass of a voice from grave to acute; the tone or power of voice.

Volumed

VOL'UMED, adjective Having the form of a volume or roll; as volumed mist.

Voluminous

VOLU'MINOUS, adjective

1. Consisting of many coils or complications.

The serpent roll'd voluminous and vast.

2. Consisting of many volumes or books.

The collections of Muratori and of the Byzantine history, are very voluminous

3. Having written much, or made many volumes; as a voluminons writer.

4. Copious; diffusive. He was too voluminous in discourse. [Not in use.]

Voluminously

VOLU'MINOUSLY, adverb In many volumes; very copiously.

Voluminousness

VOLU'MINOUSNESS, noun State of being bulky or in many volumes.

Volumist

VOL'UMIST, noun One who writes a volume; an author. [Not in use.]

Voluntarily

VOL'UNTARILY, adverb [from voluntary.] Spontaneously; of one's own will; without being moved, influenced or impelled by others.

To be agents voluntarily in our own destruction, is against God and nature.

Voluntariness

VOL'UNTARINESS, noun The state of being voluntary or optional.

Voluntary

VOL'UNTARY, adjective [Latin voluntarius, from voluntas, will, from volo.]

1. Acting by choice or spontaneously; acting without being influenced or impelled by another.

2. Free, or having power to act by choice; not being under restraint; as, man is a voluntary agent.

3. Proceeding from choice or free will.

That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action, is the true principle of orthodoxy.

4. Willing; acting with willingness.

She fell to lust a voluntary prey.

5. Done by design; purposed; intended. If a man kills another by lopping a tree, here is no voluntary murder.

6. Done freely, or of choice; proceeding from free will. He went into voluntary exile. He made a voluntary surrender.

7. Acting of his own accord; spontaneous; as the voluntary dictates of knowledge.

8. Subject to the will; as the voluntary motions of an animal. Thus the motion of a leg or an arm is voluntary but the motion of the heart is involuntary.

A voluntary escape, in law, is the escape of a prisoner by the express consent of the sheriff.

Voluntary jurisdiction, is that which is exercised in doing that which no one opposes; as in granting dispensations, etc.

Voluntary affidavit or oath, is one made in an extra-judicial matter.

Voluntary waste, is that which is committed by positive acts.

VOL'UNTARY, noun

1. One who engages in any affair of his own free will; a volunteer. [In this sense, volunteer is now generally used.]

2. In music, a piece played by a musician extemporarily, according to his fancy. In the Philosophical Transactions, we have a method of writing voluntaries, as fast as the musician plays the notes. This is by a cylinder turning under the keys of the organ.

3. A composition for the organ.

Volunteer

VOLUNTEE'R, noun A person who enters into military or other service of his own free will. In military affairs, volunteers enter into service voluntarily, but when in service they are subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers. They sometimes serve gratuitously, but often receive a compensation.

VOLUNTEE'R, adjective Entering into service of free will; as volunteer companies.

VOLUNTEE'R, verb transitive To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.

VOLUNTEE'R, verb intransitive To enter into any service of one's free will, without solicitation or compulsion. He volunteered in that undertaking.

[These verbs are in respectable use.]

Voluptuary

VOLUP'TUARY, noun [Latin volupturius, from voluptas, pleasure.]

A man addicted to luxury or the gratification of the appetite, and to other sensual pleasures.

Voluptuous

VOLUP'TUOUS, adjective [Latin voluptuoosus.]

Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications.

Soften'd with pleasure and voluptuous life.

Voluptuously

VOLUP'TUOUSLY, adverb Luxuriously; with free indulgence of sensual pleasures; as, to live voluptuously

Voluptuousness

VOLUP'TUOUSNESS, noun Luxuriousness; addictedness to pleasure or sensual gratification.

Where no voluptuousness yet all delight.

Volutation

VOLUTA'TION, noun [Latin volutatio, from voluto, from volvo, Eng. to wallow.]

A wallowing; a rolling of the body on the earth. [See Wallow.]

Volute

VOLU'TE, noun [Latin volutus, volvo.]

1. In architecture, a kind of spiral scroll, used in the Ionic and composite capitals, of which it is a principal ornament. The number of volutes in the Ionic order, is four; in the Composite, eight. There are also eight angular volutes in the Corinthian capital, accompanied with eight smaller ones, called helices.

2. In natural history, a genus of shells.

Volution

VOLU'TION, noun A spiral turn.

Volutite

VOL'UTITE, noun A petrified shell of the genus Voluta.

Volvic

VOL'VIC, adjective Denoting a species of stone or lava.

Vomic

VOM'IC, adjective The vomic nut, nux vomica, is the seed of the Strychnos nux vomica, a native of the East Indies. It is a very active poison.

Vomica

VOM'ICA, noun [Latin] An encysted tumor on the lungs.

Vomit

VOM'IT, verb intransitive [Latin vomo. probably the Gr. is the same word, with the loss of its first letter.]

To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth. Some persons vomit with ease, as do cats and dogs. But horses do not vomit

VOM'IT, verb transitive

1. To throw up or eject from the stomach; to discharge from the stomach through the mouth. It is followed often by up or out, but without necessity and to the injury of the language. In the yellow fever, the patients often vomit dark colored matter, like coffee grounds.

The fish vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. Jonah 2:10.

2. To eject with violence from any hollow place. Volcanoes vomit flames, ashes, stones and liquid lava.

VOM'IT, noun

1. The matter ejected from the stomach.

2. That which excites the stomach to discharge its contents; an emetic.

Black vomit the dark colored matter ejected from the stomach in the last stage of the yellow fever or other malignant disease; hence, the yellow fever, vulgarly so called.

Vomited

VOM'ITED, participle passive Ejected from the stomach through the mouth, or from any deep place through an opening.

Vomiting

VOM'ITING, participle present tense Discharging from the stomach through the mouth, or ejecting from any deep place.

VOM'ITING, noun

1. The act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth. vomiting is an inverted action of the stomach.

2. The act of throwing out substances with violence from a deep hollow, as a volcano, etc.

Vomition

VOMI'TION, noun The act or power of vomiting.

Vomitive

VOM'ITIVE, adjective Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.

Vomitory

VOM'ITORY, adjective [Latin vomitorius.] Procuring vomits; causing to eject from the stomach; emetic.

VOM'ITORY, noun

1. An emetic.

2. A door.

Voracious

VORA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin vorax, from voro, to devour; Heb. to clear away, to consume; Gr. food.]

1. Greedy for eating; ravenous; very hungry; as a voracious man or appetite.

2. Rapacious; eager to devour; as voracious animals.

3. Ready to swallow up; as a voracious gulf or whirlpool.

Voraciously

VORA'CIOUSLY, adverb With greedy appetite; ravenously.

Voraciousness

VORA'CIOUSNESS, noun Greediness of appetite; ravenousness; eagerness to devour; rapaciousness.

Voracity

VORAC'ITY, noun Greediness of appetite; voraciousness.

Creatures by their voracity pernicious, have commonly fewer young.

Voraginous

VORAG'INOUS, adjective [Latin voraginosus, vorago.] Full of gulfs.

Vortex

VOR'TEX, noun plural vortices or vortexes. [Latin from verto.]

1. A whirlpool; a whirling or circular motion of water, forming a kind of cavity in the center of the circle, and in some instances, drawing in water or absorbing other things.

2. A whirling of the air; a whirlwind.

3. In the Cartesian system, the circular motion originally impressed on the particles of matter, carrying them around their own axes, and around a common center. By means of these vortices. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe.

Vortical

VOR'TICAL, adjective Whirling; turning; as a vortical motion.

Votaress

VO'TARESS, noun A female devoted to any service, worship or state of life.

No rosary this votaress needs.

Votarist

VO'TARIST, noun [See votary.] One devoted or given up to any person or thing, to any service, worship or pursuit.

I am no idle votarist

[Votary is now used.]

Votary

VO'TARY, adjective [from Latin votus, from voveo. See Vow.]

Devoted; promised; consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow.

Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom.

VO'TARY, noun One devoted, consecrated or engaged by a vow or promise; hence more generally, one devoted, given or addicted to some particular service, worship, study or state of life. Every goddess of antiquity had her votaries. Every pursuit or study has now its votaries. One is a votary to mathematics, another is a votary to music, and alas, a great portion of the world are votaries of sensual pleasures.

It was the coldness of the votary not the prayer, which was in fault.

Vote

VOTE, noun [Latin votum, from voveo, to vow. Votum is properly wish or will.]

1. Suffrage; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a man to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations and the like. This vote or expression of will may be given by holding up the hand, by rising and standing up, by the voice, [viva voce.] by ballot, by a ticket or otherwise. All these modes and others are used. Hence,

2. That by which will or preference is expressed in elections or in deciding propositions; a ballot; a ticket, etc.; as a written vote

3. Expression of will be a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous.

4. United voice in public prayer.

VOTE, verb intransitive To express or signify the mind, will or preference, in electing men to office, or in passing laws, regulations and the like, or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others. In elections, men are bound to vote for the best men to fill offices, according to their best knowledge and belief.

To vote for a duelist, is to assist in the prostration of justice, and indirectly to encourage the crime.

VOTE, verb transitive

1. To choose by suffrage; to elect by some expression of will; as, the citizens voted their candidate into office with little opposition.

2. To enact ot establish by vote or some expression of will. The legislature voted the resolution unanimously.

3. To grant by vote or expression of will.

Parliament voted them a hundred thousand pounds.

Voted

VOTED, participle passive Expressed by vote or suffrage; determined.

Voter

VOTER, noun One who has a legal right to vote or give his suffrage.

Voting

VOTING, participle present tense Expressing the mind, will or preference in election, or in determining questions proposed; giving a vote or suffrage; electing, deciding, giving or enacting by vote.

Votive

VOTIVE, adjective Given by vow; devoted; as votive offereings.

VOTIVE medals, are those on which vows of the peoplefor emperors or empresses

are expressed.

Venus, take my votive glass.

, verb transitive

1. To call to witness; to obtest.

And vouch the silent stars and conscious moon.

2. To declare; to affirm; to attest; to warrant; to maintain by affirmations.

They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afetrward to credit it.

2. To warrant; to confirm; to establish proof.

The consistency of the discoursevouches it to be worthy of the great apostle.

4. In law, to call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.

He vouches the tenant in tail, who vouches over the common vouchee.

Vouch

VOUCH, verb intransitive To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation. I canot vouch for the truth of

the report.

He declares he will not believe her, till the elector of Hanover shall vouch for the

truth of what she so solemnly affirmed.

VOUCH, noun Warrant; attestation.

Vouched

VOUCHED, participle passive Called to witness; affirmed or fully attested; called into court to make good a warranty.

Vouchee

VOUCHEE, noun In law, the person who is vouched or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery.

Voucher

VOUCHER, noun

1. One who gives witness or full attestation to any thing.

The great writers of that age stand up together as vouchers for each others reputation.

2. In law, the act of calling in a person to make god his warranty of title.

3. A book, paper or document which serves to vouch the truth of accounts, or to confirm

or establish facts of any kind. The merchants books are his vouchers for the correctness of his accounts. Notes, bonds receipts and other writings, are used as vouchers in proving facts.

Vouching

VOUCHING, participle present tense Calling to witness; attesting by affirmation; calling in to maintain warranty of title.

Vouchor

VOUCHOR, noun In law, the tenant in a writ of right; one who calls in another to establish his warranty of title . In common recoveries, there may be a single voucher, or double vouchers.

Vouchsafe

VOUCHSAFE, verb intransitive [vouch and safe; to vouch or answer for safety.]

1. To permit to be done without danger.

2. To condescend to grant.

Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?

It is not said by the apostle that God vouchsafed to the heathen the means of

salvation.

VOUCHSAFE, verb intransitive To condescend; to deign; to yield.

VOUCHSAFE, illustrious Ormond, to behold What powr the charms of

beauty had of old.

Vouchsafed

VOUCHSAFED, participle passive Granted in condescension.

Vouchsafement

VOUCHSAFEMENT, noun Grant in condescension; as, Gods greatest communicated vouchsafements.

Vouchsafing

VOUCHSAFING, participle present tense Condescending to grant; deigning.

Vow

VOW, noun

1. A solemn promisemade to God, or by a pagan to his deity. The Roman generals when they went to war, sometimes made a vow that they would build a temple to some favorite deity, if he would give them victory. A vow is a promise of something to be given or done hereafter.

A person is constituted a religious by taking three vows, of chastity, of poverty, and of obedience. Among the Isrealites, the vows of children were not binding, unless ratified by the express or tacit consent of their father. Numbers 30:2.

2. A solemn promise; as the vows of unchangeable love and fidelity. In a moral and religious sense, vows are promises to God, as they appeal to God to witness their sincerity, and the violation of them is a most heinous offense.

VOW, verb transitive

1. To give, consecrate or dedicate to God by a solemn promise. When Jacob went to Mesopotamia, he vowed to God a tenth of this substance, and his own future devotion to his service. Genesis 28:20.

When thou vowest a vow defer not to pay it. Ecclesiastes 5:4.

2. To devote.

VOW, verb intransitive To make vows or solemn promises. He that vows, must be careful to perform.

Vowed

VOWED, participle passive Solemnly promised to God; given or consecrated by solemn promise.

Vowel

VOWEL, noun

1. In grammer, a simple sound; a sound utterd by simply opening the mouth or organs; as the sound of a, e, o.

2. The letter or character which represents a simple sound.

VOWEL, adjective Pertaining to a vowel; vocal.

Voweled

VOWELED, adjective Furnished with vowels.

Vower

VOWER, noun One who makes a vow.

FELLOW, noun [vow and fellow] One bound by the same vow. [Little used.]

Vowing

VOWING, participle present tense Making a vow.

Voyage

VOYAGE, noun

1. A passing by sea or water from one place, port or country to another, especially a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country. Captain Latin made more than a hundred voyages to the West Indies. A voyage over lake Superior is like a voyage to Bermuda.

2. The practice of traveling. [Not in use.]

VOYAGE, verb intransitive To sail or pass by water.

VOYAGE, verb transitive To travel; to pass over.

I with pain Voyagd th unreal, vast, unbounded deep.

Voyager

VOYAGER, noun One who sails or passes by sea or water.

A private voyager I pass the main.

Vulcanist

VULCANIST. [See Volcanist.]

Vulcano

VULCANO. [See Volcano.]

Vulgar

VULGAR , adjective

1. Pertaining to the common unlettered people; as vulgar life.

2. Used or practiced by common people; as vulgar sports.

3. Vernacular; national.

It might be more useful to the English reader, to write in our vulgar language.

4. Common; used by all classes of people; as the vulgar version of the scriptures.

5. Public; as vulgar report.

6. Mean; rustic; rude; low; unrefined; as vulgar ninds; vulgar manners.

7. Consisting of common persons.

In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter.

VULGAR fractions, in arithmetic, fractions expressed by a numerator and denominator; thus 2/5.

VULGAR, noun The common people. [It has no plural termination, but has often a plural verb.]

The vulgar imagine the pretender to have been a child imposed on the nation.

Vulgarism

VULGARISM, noun

1. Grossness of manners; vulgarity. [Little used.]

2. A vulgar phrase or expression. [This is the usual sense of the word.]

Vulgarity

VULGARITY, noun

1. Mean condition in life; the state of the lower classes of society.

2. Grossness or clownishness of manners or language; as vulgarity of behavior; vulgarity of expression or language.

Vulgarize

VULGARIZE, verb transitive To make vulgar.

Vulgarly

VULGARLY, adverb

1. Commonly; in the ordinary manner among the common people.

Such an one we vulgarly call call a desperate person.

2. Meanly; rudely; clownishly.

Vulgate

VULGATE, noun A very ancient Latin version of the scriptures, one the only one which the Romish church admits to be authentic. It is so called from its common use in the Latin church.

VULGATE, adjective Pertaining to the old Latin version of the scriptures.

Vulnerable

VULNERABLE, adjective

1. That may be wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as a vulnerable body.

Achilles was vulnerable in his heel; and there will never be wanting a Paris to infix

the dart.

2. Liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; as a vulnerable reputation.

Vulnerary

VULNERARY, adjective Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as vulnerary plants or potions.

VULNERARY, adjective Any plant, drug or composition, useful in the cure of wounds. Certain unguents, balsams and the like, are used as vulneraries.

Vulnerate

VULNERATE, verb transitive To wound; to hurt. [Not in use.]

Vulneration

VULNERATION, noun The act of wounding. [not in use.]

Vulpine

VULPINE, adjective Pertaining to the fox; cunning; crafty; artful.

Vulpinite

VULPINITE, noun A mineral of a grayish white color, splendent and massive; its fracture foliated. It consists of the sulphate of lime and silica.

Vultur

VULTUR,

Vulture

VULTURE, noun A genus of fowls, belonging to the order of Accipiters. The bill is straight, but hooked at the end, and covered at the base by a cere of skin. The head is naked. There are thirteen species, all carnivorous and rapacious. The vultur is one of the largest kinds of fowls, and the Condor of South America, one of this family, is the largest species of flying animals that has been discovered.

Vulturine

VULTURINE, adjective Belonging to the Vultur; having the qualities of the Vultur; resembling the Vultur; rapacious.