See Also: Voluntary(medicine)
VOLUNTARY(law)
voluntary(dictionary)
Voluntary Manslaughter(law)
VOLUNTARY JURISDICTION(law)
Voluntary plan(money)
Voluntary liquidation(money)
Voluntary bankruptcy(money)
Voluntary Lien(money)
VOLUNTARY ESCAPE(law)

voluntary 2, noun (oh) and desert(4) (iou)


voluntary 2, noun (oh)



2 plural voluntaries
n [C]
a piece of Music played in church, usually by the organ

desert(4) (iou)



desert verb. LME.
[French deserter from late Latin desertare, from Latin desertus: see DESERT noun2.]
verb trans. Give up, relinquish, leave. LME.
Pope His slacken'd hand deserts the lance it bore. J. Hawkes St. Kilda,..where men clung tenaciously for a time, but which..they have now deserted.
Scots Law.
a. verb trans. Cease to pursue (an action, summons, etc.). Formerly also, adjourn (Parliament). L15.
desert the diet abandon criminal proceedings, finally or temporarily.
b. verb intrans. Cease to have legal force; become inoperative. M16.
verb trans. Forsake, abandon, (a person or thing having a claim upon one). M17.
J. Galsworthy Deserting his wife and child and running away with that foreign governess. P. Roth Louis deserts basic Training and..goes to hide out from the Korean War in a slum somewhere.
b. Abandon or give up to something. arch. M17.
W. S. Landor Gracious God! Desert me to my sufferings, but sustain My faith in Thee!
c. Of a power or faculty: fail (someone). M17.
C. Chaplin Mother obeyed like a child;..her will seemed to have deserted her.
verb intrans. Run away from or forsake one's duty, post, or party, esp. from service in the armed forces. L17.
F. Fitzgerald Its soldiers deserted in droves to escape their enemy or to rejoin their Families.
deserted ppl adjective Forsaken, abandoned, left desolate E17.
desertedness noun E19.