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rabblement|ˈræb(ə)lmənt|
Also 6 rabel-, 6–7 rablement.
[f. rabble n.1 + -ment.]
1. = rabble 2. Now dial.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark i. 10 Thither flocked a great rablement of souldiers. 1586J. Hooker Girald. Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 96/1 Two or three field peeces..scattered Thomas and his rablement. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 127 We are not then to wonder, that..such a promiscuous Rabblement were in great Confusion. 1833Lamb Elia ii. Productions Mod. Art, A rabblement at the heels of Rosinante. 1837New Monthly Mag. LI. 118 A rude and noisy rabblement whom he could not command. 1877–In various dial. glossaries (Northumb., Lanc., Som.).
†b. = rabble 2 b. Obs.
1549Chaloner Erasm. on Folly M iii, Dunsmen, and..Albertistes, together with the whole rablement of Sophistrers. 1605Camden Rem. (1637) 199 Church-robbers, Traitours, and other of the same rabblement. 1674Bp. Brownrig Serm. I. xxi. 284 Usurers, Brokers, and the like rabblement of City-thieves.
transf.1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 25 All the foure footed rablement of herbagers and grasse champers.
c. = rabble 2 c. Now rare.
1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. ii. 245 As hee refus'd it, the rabblement howted. 1612Trav. Four Englishm. 95 Messengers..sent to raise vp all the whole rabblement thereabout vpon us. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. xlv, The hubbub of the rabblement. 1813Ld. Thurlow Poems 23 The rudest rabblement With their ill darts upon her bosom glanc'd. 1841H. Smith Moneyed Man I. i. 12 Some of the passing rabblement ordered him to desist.
d. Confusion, disturbance, or tumult like that of a rabble; riotous conduct. rare.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. xii. 9 The raskall many..Heaped together in rude rablement. 1731Gentl. Mag. I. 125 Rabblement, Brabblement, or Squabblement. 1888Stevenson Black Arrow 177 This impulse of rabblement was not restrained without a certain clamour of voices.
†2. = rabble 3 b. Obs.
c1550Will of Deuyle (Collier) 8 The rablement of..feined and domme ceremonies. 1607Scholast. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. ii. 66 The rabblement of Roman rites which Augustine..brought in. 1652G. Collier Vindic. Sabbath (1656) 44 The rabblement of Romish holi-daies.
†3. = rabble 4. Obs.
1545Joye Exp. Dan. ix, An hole rabblement of significations and signes of an abominable desolation. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 845 Prayer consisteth not in a rabblement of words. 1612tr. Benvenuto's Passenger i. i. §19. 73 An whole rablement of flim flam tales. 1714Gay Sheph. Week Proem, A rout and rabblement of critical gallimawfry.
b. = rabble 4 b. Now only dial.
1547Recorde Judic. Ur. 1, I wyll..overpasse the greate rablement, only taking one generall sentence. 1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 85 In both his Rabblements fraught with Ribaldrie. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 54 To reckon up the rest of the Rabblement is needless. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Rabblement, a long random discourse. |