velitary

plural velitaries

1. obsoleteA participant in a velitation; a soldier.

   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.

   1615, Henry Ainsworth, The Trying Out of the Truth

1. not comparableobsoleteObsolete spelling of velleitary.

   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.

   1668, Robert Brown, Jerubbaal, Or, A Vindication of The Sober Testimony Against Sinful Complyance