a vol at i on

[Lat. avolatio; avolo = to fly away.] The act of flying from or away; flight, escape. "These airy vegetables are made by the relicks of plantal emi ives, whose a vol at i on was prevented by the condensed enclosure."-Glanvill: Scepsis Scient . "Strangers, or the fungous parcels about candles, only signify a pluvious air, hindering the a vol at i on of the favillous particles."- Browne : Vulgar Errours. * a-võnge, *a-fonge (pret. a-věng, a-feng), v. [A.S. afon to receive; afeng = received.] To take, to receive. "And, after his fader dethe, aueng the kinedom." Rob. of Glouc. Chron., p. 484. (S. in Boucher.) *a-vö're-ward, adv. [Old Eng. a.; vore ward = forward.] At first. "So that avo reward The bi op hii chose of Bathe, Walter Giffard." Rob. of Glouc., p. 567. (S. in Boucher .) *a-vorth, a-uor'th (u = v), v.t. [In Dut. bevorderen to forward; voorwit , voorwarts = forwards.] [A FOR THE.] To forward. "Wether he shal auorth the abak." Hule & Nightingale, 812. (S. in Boucher.) ǎv-o-sět, s. [AVOCET.] a-võte, a-uō'te, adv . On foot. [AFOOT.] "So that vastinde a day quote he dude this dede." Robert of Gloucester: Chron ., p. 545. "Spermen auote , and bowmen and also arblasters." Ibid , p. 378.