Middle English Dictionary Entry
volāǧe adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | volāǧe adj. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. overvolage adj.
1.
(a) Unstable, fickle; of an action, a thought: flighty, reckless; changeable, capricious;
(b) winged, flying.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mcp.(Manly-Rickert)H.239 : Phebus wyf hadde sent for hire lemman; Anon they wroghten al hire lust volage.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)1284 : She, fulfilled of lustynesse…nas not yit xii yeer of age, With herte wylde and thought volage.
- c1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)161/7 : Your volage hertes and viciouse corages be in nothinge ferme ner stable.
b
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)436 : I tolde yow…of the lyon crowned and of the lyon volage [F dragon uolage].