ppl. a. Forms: 7 volied, 7–9 vollied; 8 volly’d, 8–9 volley’d, 9 volleyed. [f. VOLLEY v. + -ED.]
1. Shouted or uttered in the manner of a volley.
a. 1616. Beaum. & Fl., Bonduca, III. v. Heark … how the air Totters and reels, and rends apieces, Drusus, With the huge vollied clamours.
1813. Scott, Rokeby, V. xxxiii. He strove, with vollied threat and ban,… To rally up the desperate fight.
2. Of thunder or lightning: Discharged with the noise or continuous effect of a volley.
Very common in poetry of the 18th cent.
1667. Milton, P. L., IV. 928. When in Battel to thy aide The blasting volied Thunder made all speed.
1726. Pope, Odyss., XX. 212. Some pitying God … With vollied vengeance blast their towering pride!
1744. Akenside, Pleas. Imag., I. 188. She springs aloft Thro’ fields of air; pursues the flying storm; Rides on the volley’d lightning thro’ the heav’ns.
1812. H. & J. Smith, Rej. Addr., 38. The vollied fame rides in my breath, My blast is elemental death.
1821. Clare, Vill. Minstr., II. 60. While skies in vollied rolls are rent.
b. Of the nature of a volley.
1835. J. Harris, Gt. Teacher (1837), 25. He discharged its tremendous contents in one volleyed and prolonged explosion.
3. Of missiles, etc.: Discharged or cast in or as in a volley. Also in fig. context.
1759. W. Mason, Caractacus, Poems 1830, II. 127. Our vollied darts, That thick as hail fell on their helms.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, VIII. 78. The vollied weapons on both sides their task Perform’d effectual.
1797. Park, Sonn., 78. Then will we fire a vollied round, And uncharg’d goblets shall resound.
1856. Bryant, Winter Piece, 122. And bounding on the frozen earth Shall fall their [sc. clouds’] volleyed stores rounded like hail.
4. Tennis. Returned by volleying.
1878. Marshall, Ann. Tennis, 226/2. Volleyed service.
