a. and sb. [ad. med.L. voluntativus, f. L. voluntát-, voluntas VOLUNTY.]
A. adj. † a. (See quot. 1656.) Obs.–0 b. Hebrew Gram. Of a verbal form: Expressive of a desire; desiderative. c. Having the ability to act or accomplish at will; voluntary.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Voluntative, that proceeds from the Will, wilfull, or full of desire.
1870. trans. Lange’s Comm., Song Sol., viii. 3. The following voluntative or jussive future.
1883. Amer. Jrnl. Philol., IV. 425. The simple solution seems to be that the conditioning of a purpose destroys its absolute voluntative power.
B. sb. Hebrew Gram. A verbal form expressive of a desire to do the action denoted by the verb; a desiderative.
1870. J. F. Smith, Ewald’s Introd. Hebr. Gram., 160. The voluntative, or the expression of the desire that something may be, arises from the imperf. [etc.].
1874. A. B. Davidson, Introd. Hebr. Gram., 50. By some grammarians this form is called Cohortative; others embrace both the long and short forms under the name voluntative.
