volitary

comparative more volitary · superlative most volitary

1. rarePertaining to flight.

   a vain thought […] is such a fleeting and volitary thing […]

   1809, Ezekial Hopkins, Works, volume III

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   Many of these petrifactions had been the ossified parts of birds, that are at present (as far as is known) extinct in these islands, whose probable tameness, or want of volitary powers, caused them to be early extirpated by a people, driven by both hunger and superstition (either reason is quite sufficient in its way) to rid themselves of their presence.

   1838, Joel Samuel Polack, New Zealand, volume I, page 346