velitaryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Derived from velitation.

名詞

velitary (複数形 velitaries)

1. (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.

語源 2

See velleitary.

形容詞

velitary (not comparable)

1. 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.