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volatic, n. and a. Now rare or Obs.|vəˈlætɪk|
[ad. L. volātic-us, f. volāt-, ppl. stem of volāre to fly.]
A. n. A winged creature.
a1643W. Cartright On Mr. Stokes vi, How would they vex their Mathematicks, Their Ponderations, and their Staticks, To shew the Art of these Volaticks? 1657J. Angier Elegy in S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins., I've sometimes viewed thy small Volaticks flye Like golden atom's hov'ring in the sky.
B. adj. That flies or flits about; spec. in Path. of a variety of itch.
1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iii. 71, I ordered a Cupping-glass..to get out that Volatick Spirit, which daily ranged the whole body. Ibid. xvi. 549 This Remedy is of so great efficacy, that..presently the volatick Itch falls off dead. 1762Falconer Shipwr. iii. 292 Amidst the gloom volatic meteors blaze. 1860Mayne Expos. Lex. 1336/2 Volaticus,..flying; flitting; inconstant; volatic.
So voˈlatical a. rare—0.
1656Blount Glossogr., Volatical, that flyes or goes away suddenly, flitting, inconstant. |
