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VOLTAGE. 298 VOLTZINE.<br />
mtter^ -inductric ; voltaplost (see quot.) ; voltatype<br />
j^., an electrotype; v. trans. ^ to electrotype.<br />
yoitagTaphvy given in some Diets, as a synonym of<br />
'clectrotypy , after Penny CycL {1843) XXVI. 434/2, was<br />
coined specially for use in that work, and appears to have<br />
had no real currency.<br />
1834 Mrs. Somerville Conmx. Pkys. Sci. xxxiii. 338<br />
•Volta-clcctric induction is instantaneous. i86a Catal, Internat.<br />
Ejckih.^ Brit, II. No. 3578, The instantaneous<br />
feneration of volta-electric currents of intensity. 1834<br />
ARADAY in PhiL Trans. CXXIV. 85 On a new Measure<br />
of *VoUaclectricity. Ibid. 93 The instrument offers the<br />
only actual measurer of voltaic electricity which we at present<br />
possess...! have therefore named it a "Volta-electrometer.<br />
1839 Noad Electricity iii. 130 Its terminal wires<br />
are soldered to a Faraday's volta-electrometer. 1875 Knight<br />
Diet. Meek. 2714/1 Voitaeiectrometer, an instrument for<br />
indicating the degree of electrical excitation. 1849 Noad<br />
EUctricity (ed. 3) 491 The manner in which this machine<br />
acts will be clearly understood by reference to the general<br />
principles of '^volta-inductric action. 184a Franxis Diet.<br />
Arts, *Voltapl8a3 Grove Corr. Phys. Forces etc (1874) 303 Besides<br />
employing the usual chemical tests, I analysed it voltaically.<br />
1844 Noad Electricity (ed. 2) 144 When a series of some<br />
hundred couples of zinc and copper cylinders are arranged<br />
voltaically, and charged with common water, a battery is<br />
obtained. 1865 Mansfield Salts 12 One of these, the<br />
Chlorine, is said to be voltaically or chemically negative.<br />
Voltairean, Voltairian (vpltea*rian), sb.<br />
and a. [f. the later name of the French author<br />
Fran9ois Marie Arouet (1694-1778), who from<br />
1 718 styled himself (/^ P'oltaire.']<br />
A, sb. A follower or adherent of Voltaire in<br />
respect of opinions or the manner of expressing<br />
them ; one whose views on social and religious<br />
questions are characterized by a critical and mocking<br />
scepticism.<br />
a. 1871 MoRLEY Cottdorcet in Crit. Misc. Sen i. (1878) 51<br />
He t^-'ondorcet] was a Voltairean in the intensity of his<br />
antipathies to the Church. 1885 Athenwum 2 May 567/1<br />
His father, a country squire, and, as the fashion then was,<br />
a thorough-going Voltairean, had married one of his own<br />
serfs.<br />
^. 1875 Gladstone Glean. (1879) VI. 225 We are now engaged<br />
in training a nation to consist of Voltairians and of<br />
Clericals. x88j M. PATTisoNil/^w. (1885) 212 If it isagainst<br />
the Church it is a fiction of the Voltairians.<br />
B. adj. Of, belonging to, or resembling Voltaire<br />
holding opinions like those of Voltaire, or expressing<br />
them in his style.<br />
a. 1879 MoRLKY 5«r^^ viiL 176 The eager, bustling, shrilltongued<br />
crowd of the Voltairean age. 1885 'Mrs. Alexander<br />
' At Bay i, A shrewd, worldly, voltairean woman.<br />
^. 1876 L. Stephen Hours in Library 189 Walpole must<br />
be reckoned as belonging both in his faults and his merits to<br />
the Voltairian school of literature. 1896 W. K. Leask H.<br />
Miller v. 125 There is still the Voltairian type of thinker.<br />
Hence VoltaiTlauism (also -ean-), =: Voltaik-<br />
ISM.<br />
1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. II. 1B7 In<br />
order not to offend the Voltairianism of several of his friends,<br />
he had forborne to base his constitution on religion. 1890<br />
Athenxum 19 July 92/2 He interprets Voltairianism as *a<br />
school based on destructive irony,.. and incapable of raising<br />
or fortifying the human mind *.<br />
Voltai'rianize, v, rare. [f. prec + -IZE.]<br />
trans. To render Voltairian. Hence Voltai'rianized<br />
ppl. a,<br />
187a LiDDON Elem. Relig: ii. 49 It was. .quite another<br />
[thing] permanently to control the heart ana convictions<br />
even of the Voltairianized multitudes of Paris. 1902 Academy<br />
3 Jan. 7/2 Hamlet is completely Voltairianised, in the most<br />
audacious fashion.<br />
Voltai'rish., ti. rarer-^. [f. Fio/Za/V^ (see above)<br />
+ -ISH.] Resembling Voltaire.<br />
1841 Mrs, Browning Bk. Poets PoeL Wks. (1004) 639/2<br />
We will not. .set up its grand, luxurious, melancholy devil<br />
against Goethe's subtle, biting, Voltairish devil.<br />
Voltairism (vpltesriz'm). Also -oism. [f, as<br />
piec. + -ISM.]<br />
1. Something characteristic of Voltaire,<br />
1776 Mickle tr. Camoens* Lusiad Introd. p. cxxvi. The<br />
error confessed, and still retained, is a true Voltairism.<br />
2. The body of opinions or views expressed by<br />
Voltaire ; the mocking and sceptical attitude char-<br />
acteristic of these.<br />
1840 Cari.yle Heroes i. (1904) 14 Truly, if ChriBtianity be<br />
the highest instance of Hero-worship, then we may find here<br />
in Voltaireism one of the lowest ! 187a Morley Voltaire<br />
(1886) I We may think of Voltairism in France, somewhat as<br />
we think of Catholicism or the Renaissance or Calvinism.<br />
Voltaism (v^-lta|iz'm). [f, Volta (see Voltaic<br />
a.) + -ISM.] The production of an electric current<br />
by the chemical action of a liquid on metals; galvanism<br />
as produced by Volta's methods.<br />
181X R. Turner Arts Sci, xxix.
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