[Lat.]; will and pleasure, free will; freedom &c 748; discretion;
option &c (choice) 609; voluntariness†; spontaneity, spontaneousness;
originality.
pleasure, wish, mind; desire; frame of mind &c (inclination) 602;
intention &c 620; predetermination &c 611; selfcontrol &c;
determination &c (resolution) 604; force of will.
V. will, list; see fit, think fit; determine &c (resolve) 604; enjoin;
settle &c (choose) 609; volunteer.
have a will of one's own; do what one chooses &c (freedom) 748;
have it all.one's own way; have one's will, have one's own way.
use one's discretion, exercise one's discretion; take upon
oneself, take one's own course, take the law into one's own hands; do
of one's own accord, do upon one's own authority; originate &c (cause)
153.
Adj. voluntary, volitional, willful; free &c 748; optional;
discretional, discretionary; volitient†, volitive†.
minded &c (willing) 602; prepense &c (predetermined) 611 [Obs.];
intended &c 620; autocratic; unbidden &c (bid) &c 741; spontaneous;
original &c (casual) 153; unconstrained.
Adv. voluntarily &c adj.; at will, at pleasure; a volonte [Fr.], a
discretion; al piacere [It]; ad libitum, ad arbitrium [Lat.]; as one
thinks proper, as it seems good to; a beneplacito [It].
of one's won accord, of one's own free will; proprio motu [Lat.],
suo motu [Lat.], ex meromotu [Lat.]; out of one's won head; by choice
&c 609; purposely &c (intentionally) 620; deliberately &c 611.
Phr. stet pro ratione voluntas [Lat.]; sic volo sic jubeo [Lat.]; a
vostro beneplacito [It]; beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere
[Lat.]; Deus vult [Lat.]; was man nicht kann meiden muss man willig
leiden [G.].