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tumultuary, a. (n.)|tjuːˈmʌltjuːərɪ|
[ad. L. tumultuāri-us of or belonging to hurry or tumult, raised hastily (as troops), f. tumultus tumult: see -ary1; cf. F. tumultuaire.]
1. Of troops: Gathered hastily and promiscuously, without order or system; irregular, undisciplined. Also of warfare, etc. carried on by such troops, or in an irregular way.
1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons Ded. 2 b, The tumultuarie and disordered wars of the Lowe Countries. 1600Holland Livy viii. ii. 289 A tumultuarie armie in great hast levied..out of all quarters. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. (1817) I. ii. 396 With tumultuary..violence, they fell upon the churches. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. II. vii. iv. 165 A tumultuary attack, which was repelled by the garrison.
2. Hurriedly done; irregular, disorderly, confused; haphazard, unsystematic, random.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 245 In hast and in tumultuarie manner. 1613–18Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 22 Content with a tumultuarie learning. a1638Mede Wks. (1672) 772 So tumultuary and confused a Discourse. 1771Macpherson Introd. Hist. Gt. Brit. 235 Their resolutions must..have been tumultuary and precipitate. 1843Church St. Anselm & Hen. I, ⁋4 The tumultuary beginnings of society. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 501 Ashamed of their tumultuary injustice.
†b. Of a person: Acting, writing, or speaking hastily and at random; unsystematic, disorderly. Obs.
1618Bolton Florus To Rdr., With mathematicall Stadius, Florus is but a tumultuary author. 1644Bulwer Chiron. Prælud., Those upstart and tumultuarie Oratours. 1648Eikon Bas. vi. 40 Whatever tumultuary Patrons shall project.
3. Disposed to, marked by, or of the nature of tumult; tumultuous, turbulent.
1650Howell Giraffi's Rev. Naples i. 42 Against the will of a tumultuary people. 1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 13 The tumultuary disorders of our passions. 1664Power Exp. Philos. Pref., The..tumultuary motion of the Atoms. 1705tr. Bosman's Guinea 229 This confused Tumultuary Noise. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 404/1 The reign of Governor King..was a tumultuary period. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. viii. lviii, Struggling with a tumultuary crowd of thoughts.
B. n. in pl. Tumultuary forces: see 1.
1654Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Warrs Flanders 76 The Tumultuaries expecting..better progress. 1830James Darnley xxxiv, The leader of the tumultuaries. |