Volutation

Quick meaning: Volutation is a noun meaning (obsolete) A circular movement; a rolling, wallowing, circulation or rotation.

Meaning

(obsolete) A circular movement; a rolling, wallowing, circulation or rotation.

Example Sentences

With respect to the volutation of spirits—a thing which the Greek Platonists call Metempsychosis or Transmigration—the Cabbalists say that the soul of Adam passed (voluatatem esse!) thro' the body of David, and thence to the Messiah.

For ſphærical bodies move by fives, and every globular figure placed upon a plane, in direct volutation, returns to the firſt point of contaction in the firſt touch, accounting by the Axes of the Diameters or Cardinall points of the four quarters thereof.

To continue (after years of discretion) in this vanity, is an inexcusable desertion of pious sobriety: and to persist so to the end, is a wilful despising of Gods sacred exhortations, by a constant, sensual volutation or wallowing in impure thoughts and scurrilous conceits, which both defile their Authors, and as many more, as they are communicated to.

[…]so also if onely one foot appeares, and the hands are joyned to the thighs, or else they are to be pressed together by the midwife, so if the knees are foremost, using volutation; if the hands are foremost, they are to be reduced to the sides, as before, and the parts are to be relaxed; if only one hand be foremost, the foetus is to be put back, till the site be natural; […]

Word Forms

• volutations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include undulation, wallowing, wallow, vellication, wamble, wambling.

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