voluntarioust (voluntarius)

[L. volun free. Men of voluntarious wil withsitte that heuens gouerneth. Testament of Love, ii. voluntariouslyt (vol-un-tā'ri-us-li), adv. Voluntarily; willingly. Most pleasantly and voluntariously to bear the yoke of his most comfortable commandments. Strype, Eccles. Mem., Edw. VL., an. 1550. rical method. God did not work as a nece ary, but a voluntary agent, intending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, I. iii. 2. 5. Of, pertaining, or relating to voluntaryism, or the doctrines of the voluntaries: as, the vol untary theory or controversy.-6. In law: ( a ) Proceeding from the free and unconstrained will of the person: as, a voluntary confe ion. ( b ) Not supported by a substantial pecuniary or valuable consideration. See voluntary con veyance, below. - Voluntary affidavit or oath. (a) An affidavit or oath made in a case in which the law has not sanctioned the administration of an oath or affir mation. (b) An affidavit offered spontaneously or made freely, without the compulsion of subpœna or other proce .-Voluntary agent. See agent. - Voluntary appearance, the spontaneous appearance of a defendant of resisting an action proceed ing without having been served with proce or without requiring the plaintiff to rely upon service of proce to compel appearance. - Voluntary a ociation. See as so Voluntary conveyance, a conveyance made without Voluntary bankruptcy. See bankruptcy. valuable consideration; a conveyance in the nature of a gift. The importance of the distinction between this and a conveyance for value is that the former may be voidable by creditors in some cases where the latter may not. Voluntary escape. See escape, 8. - Voluntary grantee, the grantee in a voluntary conveyance. - Voluntary jurisdiction, a jurisdiction exercised in matters admitting of no opposition or question, and therefore cognizable by any of the court judges, and in any place and on any lawful day. - Voluntary manslaughter. See manslaughter, 2. - Voluntary motion. See motion. - Voluntary muscle, voluntary muscular fiber, striated red muscular fiber (except that of the heart), as distinguished from smooth pale muscular fiber: so called as being under the control of the will. See cut under muscular. - Voluntary partition, a partition accomplished by mutual agreement, as distinguished from one had by the judgment of a court. - Voluntary school, in England, one of a cla of elementary schools supported by voluntary subscriptions, many of them in part maintained and regulated by religious bodies. The number of those schools has been greatly reduced since 1870, when education was made compulsory by the Education Act, and board schools were established. The landowning cla have... spent their wealth in bettering in many ways the condition of largely. the labourers, in building cottages, and improving volun tary schools. Nineteenth Century, XXVI. 738. Voluntary waste, waste which is the result of the voluntary act of the tenant of property, as where, without the consent of the proprietor, he cuts down timber, or pulls down a wall. Syn. Voluntary, Spontaneous , Will ing. Voluntary supposes volition, and therefore intention, and presumably reflection. Spontaneous views the act as though there were immediate connection between it and the cause, without intervention of the reason and the will: spontaneous applause seems to start of itself. Willing has in the authorized version of the Bible a range of meaning up to desirous or anxious, as in Mat. i. 19, xxvi. 41, Luke x. 29, but now is strictly confined to the voluntary negative sense of consenting, of not refusing or objecting, in regard to the wish of another. Some of the pleasantest recollections of my childhood are connected with the voluntary study of an ancient Bible which belonged to my grandmother. Huxley, Critiques and Addre es, p. 54. Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway. Goldsmith , Des. Vil., 1. 255. He lent a willing ear to the artful propositions of Sforza. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 1. II. n.; pl. voluntaries (-riz). 1. One who engages in any affair of his own choice or free will; a volunteer. Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries , With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens. Shak., K. John, ii. 1. 67. Specifically-2. Eccles., in Great Britain, one who maintains the doctrine of the mutual independence of the church and the state, and holds that the church should be supported by the voluntary contributions of its members and should be left entirely free to regulate its affairs.-3. Any work or performance not imposed by another. At school he [Words worth] wrote some task-verses on subjects imposed by the master, and also some volunta ries of his own, equally undistinguished by any peculiar Lowell , Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 206. merit. IMG:content-1943.png:[blocks in formation] The rich may indulge in superfluities. The Ionian muse is somewhat too fond of playing voluntaries . Landor , Imag. Conv., Virgilius and Horatius. My dear Herr Capellmeister, they say you play the most exquisite voluntaries ! Now do play us one. Long fellow , Hyper i on, iv. 4. At voluntaryt, voluntarily; by an effort of will. Cyrces cuppes were too strong for all antidotes, and womens flatteries too forceable to resist at voluntarie. Greene, Never Too Late (Works, ed. Dyce, Int., p. xii.). voluntarył (vol'un-tā-ri), adv . [ voluntary , a . ] Voluntarily. Gold, amber, yvorie, perles, owches, rings, And all that els was pretious and deare, The sea unto him voluntary brings. Spenser, F. Q., III. iv. 23. I serve here voluntary . Shak ., T. and C., ii. 1. 103. voluntaryism (vol'un-ta-ri-izm), n. [ control. Esther... was unable at present to give her mind to the original functions of a bishop, or the comparative merits of Endowments and Voluntaryism . George Eliot , Felix Holt, xli. The transatlantic friend of Vane, at the very nick of time, was the central champion in England of absolute voluntaryism , against the Independents and the famous fifteen proposals for a State Church on their sort of "Christian Fundamentals." N. A. Rev., CXXVI. 541. In education, voluntaryism has been most prominent and most beneficent from early times. Jour. of Education , XVIII. 148. voluntaryist (vol'un-ta-ri-ist), n. [ voluntary +-ist.] One who believes in or advocates voluntaryism, especially in religion. [Rare.] We commend this tribute to the Church of England to our friends on the other side of the water, as proof that an American and a Voluntaryist can yet do full justice to that ancient and historical church. New York Evangelist , Oct. 19, 1876. voluntative (vol'un-ta-tiv), a. [ -ive .] Voluntary. The simple solution seems to be that the conditioning of a purpose destroys its absolute voluntative power. Amer. Jour. Philol ., IV. 425. 6787 that account; in the United States, especially during the civil war, a soldier of a body other than the regular army, but practically governed by the same laws when in service. In Great Britain the government provides the various bodies of vol unteers, or citizen-soldiery, with competent instructors, arms, and a part of their ammunition, besides allowing to each corps certain grants proportioned to the number of efficient members, etc. A British volunteer can resign on giving a fortnight's notice, except in a crisis of imminent danger to the country. In the United States the army of volunteers comprises, to all intents and purposes-(1) the regular unpaid forces of State militia which, when called into the actual service of the United States, receive pay from the government, and are subject to the rules and articles of war, and (2) that cla of troops which may from time to time be raised by Congre on occasions of national emergency. Such troops are properly United States troops, and the method of officering them is desig nated by Congre . At the very outset of the campaign, the inexperience of the Federal volunteers was made evident, even more on the march than on the battle-field. Comte de Paris, Civil War in America (trans.), I. 193. Volunteers often complain that they are not taken seriously enough. Nor must they ever cease complain ing until they have been thoroughly organized for whatever their duties are to be, and until those duties are perfectly clear to themselves and the country at large. Fortnightly Rev. , N. S., XLIII. 615. 3. In law , one who claims the benefit of a contract or conveyance although no consideration proceeded from him nor from any one in whose place he stands.-4. A tree which grows spontaneously: as, that pear-tree in my garden is a volunteer. [Southern U. S.] II. a. 1. Entering into military service by free will and choice: as, a volunteer soldier. 2. Composed of volunteers: as, a volunteer corps. The volunteer artillery, furnished by the several States, was only organized into batteries, having no officer above the rank of captain. Comte de Paris , Civil War in America (trans.), I. 275. volunteer (vol-un-tēr'), v . [ volunteer , n.] I. trans . To offer, contribute, or bestow voluntarily, or without constraint or compulsion. The chief agents who had already volunteered their services against him. Gifford, Note on B. Jonson's Poetaster, iii. 1. Bit by bit, the full and true Particulars of the tale were volunteered With all the breathle zeal of friendship. Browning, Ring and Book, I. 232. II. in trans. To enter into any service of one's free will, without constraint or compulsion: as, to volunteer for a campaign. volunteerlyt (vol-un-ter'li), adv . Voluntarily; as a volunteer. Volunteerly to ramble with Lord Loudon Campbell, Brave Ilay did suffer for a'. Battle of Sheriff - Muir (Child's Ballads, VII. 158).