velitary means A participant in a velitation; a soldier.
Etymology
Derived from velitation.
noun
- A participant in a velitation; a soldier.“You would hav men think, that if you have ſo many men in a skirmiſh or velitation, you have many moe againſt a day of battel. But if these your velitaries be discomfited (as some of them are already,) I suppose your armado wil never enter this feild. Let us therfore try their strength.”