altivolant

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English

Etymology

From Latin altivolans. See volant.

Adjective

altivolant (comparative more altivolant, superlative most altivolant)

  1. (obsolete) Flying high.
    • 1833, William Ellis Wall, Christ Crucified:
      So he thus
      Repuls'd the tempter, who, not yet abash'd,
      Bore him altivolant from Salem's tow'rs

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “altivolant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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