a. rare–1. [Irreg. f. VARIATION.] = VARIATIONAL a.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), II. 175. The names of Astyanax and Hector are really the same, for the one means a king, and the other is a ‘holder or possessor’; ’tis all one meaning, save the phrase is a little variatious.
