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volitary

volitary adjective: pertaining to flight.

Adjective

volitary (comparative more volitary, superlative most volitary)

  1. (rare) Pertaining to flight.
    • a vain thought […] is such a fleeting and volitary thing […]1809, Ezekial Hopkins, Works, volume III
    • Many of these petrifactions had been the ossified parts of birds, that are at present (as far as is known) extinct in these islands, whose probable tameness, or want of volitary powers, caused them to be early extirpated by a people, driven by both hunger and superstition (either reason is quite...1838, Joel Samuel Polack, New Zealand, volume I, page 346

Forms of volitary

comparativemore volitary
superlativemost volitary

Questions about volitary

What does volitary mean?
Volitary means pertaining to flight.
What part of speech is volitary?
Volitary is an adjective.

Words near volitary in the dictionary

  1. volinanserin
  2. voling
  3. volipresence
  4. volitable
  5. volitant
  6. volitary
  7. volitate
  8. volitated
  9. volitates
  10. volitating
  11. volitation

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