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Voluntary: Definition and part of speech

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Voluntary

  1. v. t. Of or pertaining to voluntaryism; as, a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church.
  2. v. t. Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.
  3. v. t. Unconstrained by the interference of another; unimpelled by the influence of another; not prompted or persuaded by another; done of his or its own accord; spontaneous; acting of one’s self, or of itself; free.
  4. v. t. Done by design or intention; intentional; purposed; intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
  5. v. t. Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle fibers, which are the agents in voluntary motion.
  6. v. t. Endowed with the power of willing; as, man is a voluntary agent.
  7. v. t. Free; without compulsion; according to the will, consent, or agreement, of a party; without consideration; gratuitous; without valuable consideration.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Voluntaryism: Definition and part of speech

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Voluntaryism

  1. n. The principle of supporting a religious system and its institutions by voluntary association and effort, rather than by the aid or patronage of the state.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Volunteer: Definition and part of speech

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Volunteer

  1. a. Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.
  2. a. One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.
  3. a. One who enters into service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; — opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
  4. a. A grantee in a voluntary conveyance; one to whom a conveyance is made without valuable consideration; a party, other than a wife or child of the grantor, to whom, or for whose benefit, a voluntary conveyance is made.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Voluminous: Definition and part of speech

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Voluminous

  1. a. Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse; as, a voluminous writer.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
  3. a. Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
  4. a. Of great volume, or bulk; large.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.