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volow

volow verb: to baptize.

Verb

volow (third-person singular simple present volows, present participle volowing, simple past and past participle volowed)

  1. (derogatory, obsolete, transitive) To baptize.
    • The child was well volowed (ſaye they) yee and oure vicare is as fayre a volower as ever a pꝛeſt within this twenty myles.1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “Anoylynge”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio cvij, verso

Forms of volow

third-person singular presentvolows
present participlevolowing
past participlevolowed
pastvolowed

Origin of volow

From Middle English volewen, from Latin volō (“to will”), the answer in the baptismal service.

Questions about volow

What does volow mean?
Volow means to baptize.
What part of speech is volow?
Volow is a verb.
What is the past tense of volow?
The past tense of volow is volowed.

Words near volow in the dictionary

  1. Volosovsky
  2. volost
  3. volosti
  4. volosts
  5. volotrauma
  6. volow
  7. volowed
  8. volowing
  9. volows
  10. Volpatti
  11. Volpe

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