volutare

1 volutare v. tolutare

2 volutare [CL] 1 to cause to rotate. b to cause to roll around. etsi ‥ [rota molendini] ~ata non foret ‥ tamen ‥ aque ‥ jacentem in imo puerum ‥ violencia cadendi oppresserant Mir. Hen. VI I 1.  b ~abant eum in diversum ‥ dolores, sicut anguis varios se torquet in orbes W. Malm. Wulfst. II 12; verba volutat eques, vox multa per atria currit L. Durh. Dial. II 465. 2 (refl. or intr., also pass. in mid. sense) to roll around; b (in sexual context). c to wallow (in something pleasurable). duo pusilla animalia maritima ‥ lambentes pedes ejus ~antes [v. l. ~antia] tergebant pellibus suis V. Cuthb. II 3; ipsum [socium semimortuum] ‥ in sanguine suo ~atum ‥ derelinquunt Alex. Cant. Mir. 22 (II) p. 203; nudum se in illis spinarum aculeis et urticarum incendiis projecit, ibique diu ~atus ‥ exiit Gir. GE II 10 p. 213; sensit quoddam nebulosum et densum inter se et uxorem ~ari R. Niger Chr. II 158; quod tantis intestinorum doloribus torqueretur ut ‥ jacere non valeret sed pre angustia ~are compelleretur J. Furness Walth. 130; puer quidam ‥ loquebatur aliena et clamabat et ~abat se sicut furiosus Canon. S. Osm. 45; cui ‥ adhuc inter ubera ~anti et nondum coronato ‥ E. comes ‥ ligeum fecit homagium Fortescue Def. Lanc. 5.  b invenerunt ‥ ipsum [regem] ‥ inter utrasque [mulieres] ‥ creberrime ~antem B. V. Dunst. 21; [diaconus] quadam nocte cum meretricula ~atus R. Niger Chr. II 159.  c in cunctis extraordinariis voluptatibus se ~ant P. Blois Ep. 85. 3 to turn over in the mind, ponder. versat i. ~at, geþohte GlP 520; consilia longis ambagibus ~ata [Anselmus] uno contudit responso W. Malm. GP I 49; s1141 ~abatur ‥ per omnium mentes et ora quid foret agendum Id. HN 492; pristina si memores, si mente moderna volutes Babio 219. 4 to modulate the voice in singing, trill, warble. nuncius Aurore modulans volutabat [v. l. volitabat] alauda Gower VC I 95. 5 (of horse) to walk with a rolling gait, pace, amble, or f. l. M. ‥ equo descendit, faleras deposuit, se in ‥ herba ‥ refrigerare et spaciari equum †voluntando [? l. ~ando] permisit Hist. Meriadoci 361.