velitary
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Derived from velitation.
Noun edit
velitary (plural velitaries)
- (obsolete) A participant in a velitation; a soldier.
- 1615, Henry Ainsworth, The Trying Out of the Truth:
- You would hav men think, that if you have ſo many men in a skirmiſh or velitation, you have many moe againſt a day of battel. But if these your velitaries be discomfited (as some of them are already,) I suppose your armado wil never enter this feild. Let us therfore try their strength.
Etymology 2 edit
See velleitary.
Adjective edit
velitary (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of velleitary
- 1668, Robert Brown, Jerubbaal, Or, A Vindication of The Sober Testimony Against Sinful Complyance:
- The Preface of the S.T. being vindicated from the exceptions of Mr. T. wherein his skirmiſhings have been manifeſted to be velitary, and weak indeed.