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volitare [CL] 1 (of winged creature) to fly (about), flit, flutter; b (of projectile, thing borne by or streaming in the wind, or sim.); c (fig. or in fig. context, esp. of fame or report). vos licet effugeret volitantum more strepentes / aucarum Wulf. Swith. I 552; aquila ‥ pullos suos ad volandum provocat, super eos ~ans Hon. Spec. Eccl. 958A; brucus ‥ cum ceperit ~are, vocatur athelebus J. Sal. Pol. 590C; passerem ‥ vidit ‥ per herbarum amena virecta ‥ ~are R. Cold. Cuthb. 72; mira res est volitante / equo, hasta sanguinante Garl. SM 440; s1346 alites, sc. corvi, cornices ‥ supra Francorum exercitum ~arent Wals. HA I 268.  b cum mihi caesaries volitent de vertice crispae Aldh. Aen. 100 (Creatura) 46; [equo] cui per colla jubae volitant, tumet ardua cervix Alcuin SS Ebor 180; continuo insonuit percussis cudo metallis / malleus et vacuas volitans cum verberat auras / jam coenam fratrum peditans culdarios ornat Æthelwulf Abb. 304; toxica loetiferae volitant quo tela pharetrae Frith. 1082; ut vexilli Boamundi lingulas in ora Turcorum ~are faceret Ord. Vit. IX 9 p. 527; in fluctuatione nubium ~antium et descensu aquarum Andr. S. Vict. Hept. 222; forte de ignitis hinc inde discurrentibus jaculis aliqua in cor meum scintillula ~abit amoris J. Ford Serm. 53. 1; tunc volitant palee vento frondesque caduce Garl. Tri. Eccl. 31; c1370 Galli terga dabunt catapulte dum volitabunt (J. Bridl.) Pol. Poems I 198, 200.  c septena alarum me circumstantia cingit / vecta per alma poli quis nunc volitare solesco Tatwine Aen. 1 (Philosophia) 2; 1164 omnia que per ora populi ~abant studiosissime dissimulabam J. Sal. Ep. 134 (136); fama bonitatis sue ‥ per ora provincialium crebius [sic] ~abatur Chr. Witham 498; utrum ‥ res hominum ceca vagis ~ans pennis fortuna regat Gir. Galf. intr. I p. 357; ille debet penitere / cujus bursa caret ere, / cujus bursa volitat Walt. Wimb. Van. 60. 2 to move about or go swiftly or rapidly, rush around (also transf.). dixerat, et properis volitabat gressibus inde / nuncius Mir. Nin. 121; huc et eo volitans [canis] et duce nare sequens L. Durh. Dial. II 68; incentiva libidinis illum adduxerant et mentem illius titillabant, ad quam explendam totus effrenis et preceps ~abat R. Shrewsb. 2; supplicans ‥ majestati regie, sub cujus umbra vivo et ~o Ad. Usk 86; c1250 fax ‥ vagante manu et inconsiderata sub ~antibus oculis aut conniventibus portabatur J. Godard Ep. 227.

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