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boisterous, a.|ˈbɔɪstərəs|
Forms: 5–8 boistrous, 6–7 boystrous, boysterous, 6 bou-, bowstrous, 6– boisterous.
[Used in the same sense as the earlier boisteous, boistuous, boistous, of which it appears to be a variant modified by some obscure analogy.]
I. Rough or coarse in quality.
†1. Rough, coarse, as e.g. food. Obs.
1474Caxton Chesse iii. i, The labourer of the erth vseth grete and boistrous metis.
†2. Of rough, strong, or stiff texture; stout, stiff, unyielding. Obs.
1572tr. Buchanan's Detect. Mary in H. Campbell Love-lett. Mary (1824) 135 She could abide at the poop, and..handle the boisterous cables. 1577Holinshed Chron. III. 915/1 Hauing vpon him a great gowne of boisterous veluet. 1586Warner Alb. Eng. ii. viii. (1612) 37 About his boistrous necke full oft their daintie armes they cast. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 33 Hee hath not made the ligaments..nor the sinewes of any such boisterous or stiffe matter. 1700Dryden Sigismonda & G. 59 The leathern out-side, boistrous as it was, Gave way.
†3. Roughly massive, bulky, big and cumbrous.
1596Spenser F.Q. i. viii. 10 His boystrous club. 1633J. Fosbroke Warre or Conflict 30 Goliah, notwithstanding..his huge and boisterous armour, etc. 1641R. Brooke Eng. Episc. i. x. 59 The Pandects of the Civill Law are too boystrous, and of too great extent for any Civilian to comprehend. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. (1851) 292 If the work seeme more triviall or boistrous then for this discourse.
†4. Rough to the feelings; painfully rough. Obs.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. iv. 26 Is loue a tender thing? it is too rough, Too rude, too boysterous, and it pricks like thorne. 1595― John iv. i. 95 Feeling what small things are boysterous there [in the eye].
†5. Rough in operation; not skilful or delicate.
1609Sir G. Paule Abp. Whitgift 28 This bishop was not so boysterous a surgeon.
†6. Strong- or coarse-growing, rank. Obs.
1622Wither Philar. in Juv. (1633) 590 [The pool] overgrowne with boystrous Sedge. 1671Milton Samson 1164 As good for nothing else, no better service, With those thy boysterous locks.
II. Acting roughly, violent.
†7. Violent in action or properties. Obs.
1544Phaër Regim. Lyfe (1560) N ii b, The saide venime is so swift, so fearce, and so boistrous of itselfe. 1645Milton Colast. Wks. (1851) 349 A boisterous and bestial strength. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth vi. (1723) 294 The Heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for them.
8. Of wind, weather, waves, etc.: Rough, the opposite of ‘calm’.
1576Thynne Ld. Burghley's Crest in Animadv. App. iv. (1865) 113 In calme or boystrous tyde. 1596Drayton Leg. iii. 488 The boyst'rous Seas. 1684Contempl. State of Man i. ii. (1699) 20 A boystrous Wind had blown away the Leaves. 1726–7Bolingbroke in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. lxxiii, This boisterous climate of ours. 1836Macgillivray tr. Humboldt's Trav. xxi. 299 A boisterous passage of twenty-five days. 1843Prescott Mexico (1850) I. 194 Finding some difficulty in doubling a boisterous headland.
9. Of persons and their actions.
†a. Full of rough violence to others, violently fierce, savage, truculent. Obs.
1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 753 Those boysterous Nemrothes, that neuer will be satisfied with the slaughter of Innocents. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, ii. i. 70 Oh..boyst'rous Clifford, thou hast slaine The flowre of Europe. 1681E. Sclater Serm. Putney 11 What care boisterous Enemies for what these can do unto them? 1713Pope Frenzy J.D. in Swift's Wks. (1755) III. i. 144 By your indecent and boisterous treatment of this man of learning, I perceive you are a violent sort of person. 1791Cowper Iliad v. 370 Distant from the boisterous war.
b. Rough and violent in behaviour and speech, turbulent; too rough or clamorous. (Orig. in a distinctly bad sense, but gradually passing into c.)
1568T. Howell Newe Sonets (1879) 139 Feare not his boustrous vantinge worde. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. i. 4 Heere to make good y⊇ boistrous late appeal. 1667E. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. i. iii. (1743) 8 The men are strong and boisterous, great wrestlers, and healthy. 1690Crowne Eng. Frier i. i. 3 Pox o' this boystrous fool. 1705Otway Orphan v. xix. 2296 Stand off thou hot-brain'd boistrous noisy Ruffian. 1853Marsden Early Purit. 55 Every form of church government..had for awhile its boisterous advocates.
c. Abounding in rough but good-natured activity bordering upon excess, such as proceeds from unchecked exuberance of spirits.
a1683Sidney Disc. Gov. iii. §25 (1704) 334 That boisterous humor being gradually temper'd by disciplin. 1709Steele Tatler No. 45 ⁋8 Their boisterous Mirth. 1752Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 5 It renders the mind incapable of the rougher and more boisterous emotions. 1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall xix. 167 A rich, boisterous, foxhunting baronet. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 213 Under the outward show of boisterous frankness.
†10. quasi-adv. Boisterously. Obs.
1595Shakes. John iv. i. 76 Alas, what neede you be so boistrous rough? |