a. [ad. L. volitant-, volitans, pres. pple. of volitāre: see next.]
1. Flitting, flying or constantly moving about.
1847. Emerson, Repr. Men, Montaigne, Wks. (Bohn), I. 340. We are golden averages, volitant stabilities … houses founded on the sea.
1858. Lewes, Sea-side Studies, 358. Pleasant the sight of that snowy mass of cloud which lazily rolls landwards. It rose from the surface of this brilliant, buoyant, volitant sea in airy bubbles of vapour.
1891. Cent. Dict., s.v., The bat is a volitant quadruped.
2. Characterized by fitting or flying to and fro.
1857. Fraser’s Mag., July, 65/1. The tremulous volitant motion of breeze upon wave.
