veloaty?

[sagehen]

>Is "veloaty" really a word?  Not in OED2.  335 hits on Google, all of
>the first 30 seemingly from various sciences, mainly aerodynamics,
>fluid dynamics, or physics (electrical and particle), and seemingly
>meaning, or related to, "velocity".
>
>I have it from 1742:  "Yet perhaps it may be objected why so much
>Vigilancy and Veloaty, where there's so much Innocency:  The wicked
>flee, when only the Sting of corporal Punishment ... pursues."  Seems
>to suggest velocity--speed of pursuit--here also.
>
>Joel
>
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Mightn't this just have been a misreading of handwritten _ci _ as _a_
somewhere along the line ?
A. Murie

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