英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Voluntary
(n.)
A piece played by a musician, often extemporarily,
according to his fancy; specifically, an organ solo played before,
during, or after divine service.
Voluntary
(n.)
One who advocates voluntaryism.
Voluntaryism
(n.)
The principle of supporting a religious system and
its institutions by voluntary association and effort, rather than by
the aid or patronage of the state.
Volunteer
(a.)
One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his
own free will.
Volunteer
(a.)
One who enters into service voluntarily, but who, when
in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other
soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of
the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing
army.
Volunteer
(a.)
A grantee in a voluntary conveyance; one to whom a
conveyance is made without valuable consideration; a party, other than
a wife or child of the grantor, to whom, or for whose benefit, a
voluntary conveyance is made.
Volunteer
(a.)
Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers;
consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer
advice.
Volunteer
(v. t.)
To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without
solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.
Volunteer
(v. i.)
To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own
free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in
that undertaking.
Volunteered
(imp. & p. p.)
of Volunteer
Volunteering
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Volunteer
Volupere
(n.)
A woman's cap.
Voluptuaries
(pl. )
of Voluptuary
Voluptuary
(n.)
A voluptuous person; one who makes his physical
enjoyment his chief care; one addicted to luxury, and the gratification
of sensual appetites.
Voluptuary
(a.)
Voluptuous; luxurious.
Voluptuous
(a.)
Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the
senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting
sensual desires; luxurious; sensual.
Voluptuous
(a.)
Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure;
indulging to excess in sensual gratifications.
Volupty
(n.)
Voluptuousness.
Voluta
(n.)
Any one of numerous species of large, handsome marine
gastropods belonging to Voluta and allied genera.
Volutae
(pl. )
of Voluta