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VOLUTATE.
tVolutate, V. Obsr^ [ad. L. voluidt-, ppl.
stem of volfttdre to roll or wallow.] (See quot.)
1613 CocKERAM I, Volntate, to wallow vp and downe.
Volutation v^'('l'"t/' J^n). ?0^j. [ad. L. z;^/«tdtion-^
volutdtio^ noun of action f. volutdre (see
prec), f. volfit-., volvire to roll.]
1. The action of rolling or causing to roll ; revolution
combined with progression.
£'1610 Sir C. Hevdon Astroi, Disc.{i6so) ^2 For whatsoever
movetli another, it doth it either by impulsion, attraction,
volutation, or vection. 1658 Sir T. Browne Card. Cy?^ts
iii. 53 Every globular Figure placed upon a plane, in direct
volutation, returns to the first point of contaction. 1665
Glanvill De/. Van. Dogtn. 47 In Volutation the whole
circumference moves by a motion both progressive and
circular ; but the centre by the progressive only. 1755
JojrNSON, To roll., to move any thing by volutation, or successive
application of the different parts of the surface, to
the ground.
b. Applied to the motion of liquids or sound.
1640 Bp. Reynolds Passions xxi. 220 In the Sea when a
storme is over, there remaines still an inward working and
volutation. 167X R. Bohun Wind 192 When as the volutation
of the waves so often changes the Superficies of the
water. 1692 Ray Disc. ii. v, (1693) 205 The ebullition and
volutation of the melted Materials. 1713 Debham Phys.
Theol. IV. iii. 120 But being hard, and curiously smooth and
tortuous, sounds find an easy passage, with a regular
Volutation and Refraction. ^
o. The action of rolling or turning over in a
prostrate position ; wallowing. Alsoy^.
1655 Vaughan Silex Scint. 1, Pref. (1858) 6 A constant
sensual Volutation or wallowing in impure thoughts and
scurrilous conceits. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Sysf. i. iii. § 37.
161 Not only our nictations, .when we are .awake, hot also
our nocturnal volutations in sleep, are performed with very
little or no consciousness. 17*1 Bailey, Volutation, a rolling,
tunibting, or wallowing.
2. yf^. (See quots.)
1623 CocKERAM I, Volutation, a tossing in the minde.
1649 J. H. Motion to Pari. Adz