Meanings
verbvolow (third-person singular simple present volows, present participle volowing, simple past and past participle volowed)
present singular third person volows · participle present volowing · participle past volowed · past volowed
- derogatoryobsoletetransitiveTo baptize.
The child was well volowed (ſaye they) yee and oure vicare is as fayre a volower as ever a pꝛeſt within this twenty myles.
1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “Anoylynge”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio cvij, verso
Origin
- Latinvolō“to will”
- Middle Englishvolewen
- Englishvolow
From Middle English volewen, from Latin volō (“to will”), the answer in the baptismal service.
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