volaticn.adj.
/vəˈlatɪk/ Now rare or Obsolete.
A. n.
A winged creature.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > wing > winged creature
volatilea1325
fowla1382
pinionist1613
volatica1643
a1643 W. Cartwright On Mr. Stokes in Comedies (1651) sig. O3v How would they vex their Mathematicks, Their Ponderations, and their Staticks, To shew the Art of these Volaticks?
1657 J. 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 Pathology of a variety of itch.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > irritating > itching > of an itch: moving about
volatic1684
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [adjective]
aerya1398
aerial?1545
coursing1600
volant1603
volatical1656
volatic1762
floating1781
aerian1865
volitant1891
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 71 I ordered a Cupping-glass..to get out that Volatick Spirit, which daily ranged the whole body.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xvi. 549 This Remedy is of so great efficacy, that..presently the volatick Itch falls off dead.
1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck iii. 49 Amidst the gloom volatic meteors blaze.
1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. 1336/2 Volaticus,..flying; flitting; inconstant; volatic.
Derivatives
voˈlatical adj. rare Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [adjective]
aerya1398
aerial?1545
coursing1600
volant1603
volatical1656
volatic1762
floating1781
aerian1865
volitant1891
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Volatical, that flyes or goes away suddenly, flitting, inconstant.
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