sb. and a. Now rare or Obs. [ad. L. volātic-us, f. volāt-, ppl. stem of volāre to fly.]
A. sb. A winged creature.
a. 1643. W. Cartwright, On Mr. Stokes, vi. How would they vex their Mathematicks, Their Ponderations, and their Staticks, To shew the Art of these Volaticks?
1657. Angier, Elegy, in S. Purchas, Pol. Flying-Ins. I’ve sometimes viewed thy small Volaticks flye Like golden atom’s hov’ring in the sky.
B. adj. That flies or flits about; spec. in Path. of a variety of itch.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., III. 71. I ordered a Cupping-glass … to get out that Volatick Spirit, which daily ranged the whole body. Ibid., XVI. 549. This Rennedy is of so great efficacy, that … presently the volatick Itch falls off dead.
1762. Falconer, Shipwr., III. 292. Amidst the gloom volatic meteors blaze.
1860. Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1336/2. Volaticus,… flying; flitting; inconstant; volatic.
So Volatical a. rare–0.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Volatical, that flyes or goes away suddenly, flitting, inconstant.
