Byron: Siege of Corinth, vii.

2. Consisting of so many volumes. (Used in composition; as, a three - volumed novel, .) võl-u-men-om-e-ter, võl-u-mom-ě-ter, subst . [Latin volumen = a volume, and Eng. meter.] An instrument for measuring the volume of a solid body by the quantity of a liquid or of the air which it displaces, and thence also for determining its specific gravity. A very simple volumenometer consists of a globular flask with a narrow neck. about twelve inches long, and graduated from below upward to indicate grains of water. The flask has a tubulure, accurately fitted with a ground stopper for admitting the solid body to be measured. The instrument being filled to the mark 0° on the neck with a liquid, as water, which does not act upon the solid, it is inclined on one side, the stop. per removed, and the solid body introduced. The stopper is then replaced, and the number of divisions through which the liquid is raised in the stem gives at once the volume of the body in grain-me as ures. I. Ord. Lang.: One who engages in any act or affair of his own free will and choice; a volunteer. "Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries ." Shakesp.: King John, ii. Church Hist.: A controversy which arose in Scot- land in 1831 with regard to the mutual relations which should subsist between the Civil Government and the Church. About the year 1780 a member of the Burgher denomination [BURGHER] published a pamphlet, in which he advocated what is now called Voluntaryism (q. v.), and in May, 1795, pro- posed a modification of the Confe ion of Faith in conformity with the new views. The Synod ulti- mately granted the prayer of the petition, a minor- ity withdrawing in 1799 and becoming known as the Old Light Burghers. The same change of views ap- peared with similar results somewhat later among the Anti burghers. In May, 1804, they superseded their "Act and Testimony," which was in favor of Establishments, by the " Narrative and Testimony," the acceptance of which they made a condition of Communion. Four ministers withdrawing in 1806, formed themselves into the Constitutional A oci- ate Presbytery. The two denominations, which had on one point modified their creed, joining in 1820, became the United Sece ion. Up till this time, and for some years subsequently, the Voluntary Controversy had attracted litttle notice, but in 1831 land, the leading ministers of the Established it began to excite great attention throughout Scot- Church on the one hand, and those of the United Se- ce ion on the other, carrying it on with the great- estardor. The controversy had far-reaching con- sequences. To a certain extent it was to strengthen the Established Presbyterian Church on points on which its "voluntary" a ailants had declared it weak that Dr. Chalmers proposed the Veto Act (q.v.), with the unexpected result of ultimately producing the Disruption. In the contest on the part of English Nonconformists for "religious equality" they maintain e entially the same views as the Scottish United Sece ionists did in the Voluntary Controversy. [LIBERATION-SOCIETY.] voluntary-conveyance, s. Law : A conveyance which may be made merely on a good, but not a valuable consideration. [VOL- UNTARY, A. II.] voluntary-jurisdiction, s . Law : A jurisdiction exercised in matters admit. ting of no opposition or question, and therefore cognizable by any judge, in any place, on any law- ful day. 2. Contributing to sensual pleasure; exciting, or tending to excite, sensual desires; gratifying the senses; sensual; as voluptuous charms. 3. Pa ed or spent in sensual pleasures. 4. Given or devoted to sensual pleasures or gratifications; sensual. vô-lŭp-tu-oŭs-ly, adv . [Eng. voluptuous ; -ly .] In a voluptuous manner; with free indulgence in sensual pleasures; luxuriously, sensually. vô-lŭp-tu-oŭs-ne , *vo-lup-tu-ous-nes, s . [Eng. voluptuous ; -ne .] The quality or state of being voluptuous, or addicted to free indulgence in sensual pleasures; luxuriousne , sensuality. *vô-lŭp-tě, *vo-lup-tie, s . [Latin voluptas = pleasure. Voluptuousne . ( Sir T. Elyot : Gover nor , bk. iii., ch. xix.) Võl-ŭs-pą, s. [Properly the lay or song of the Võlva, a Scand in avian prophete , but applied in error by Sir W. Scott to the prophete herself.] A Scand in avian prophete or sibyl. Tate adds Col umbel lin a, which Woodward reckons a sub-genus of Columbella, of the Buccinide. Shell turreted or convolute; aperture notched in front; columella obliquely plaited; no operculum. Animal with a recurved siphon; foot very large, partly hiding the shell; mantle often lobed and reflected over the shell; eyes on tentacles or near their base. The living members are chiefly from warm seas, and are often remarkable for their brilliant color a tion. 2. Palæont.: The family appears late in the Chalk, but is abundant in the Tertiaries, and attains its maximum in recent times.