单词 | mutinous |
释义 | mutinousadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of the nature of a mutiny; suggestive or expressive of discontent to the point of rebellion; tending to incite or provoke mutiny; seditious. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > mutiny > [adjective] mutinous1553 mutinious1663 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. x. sig. ff.i. The Macedons at theyr comming semed to be somwhat apalled, whych weried with long warre, vsed often in assembles to murmur & speake mutinous wordes against the king. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. Fv Hee telleth them a tale, that there was a time, when all the parts of the body made a mutinous conspiracie against the belly. 1606 No-body & Some-body sig. B4v Bring scandalls on the rich, raise mutinous lyes Vpon the state. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xv. v. 39 Terrified were we with the mutinous grumbling..of the souldiors. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. v. 90 What Stragems [sic]?.. Erreoneous, mutinous, and vnnaturall, This deadly quarrell daily doth beget? View more context for this quotation 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 23 For the late License of Printing all mutinous, and seditious Discourses was not yet in fashion. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 12 Feb. (1965) I. 306 They..demanded Justice in a mutinous way. 1793 Ann. Reg., Chron. 53 Bath. This day the whole body of chairmen..struck their poles, and proceeded in a mutinous manner to Guildhall, respecting the granting of their licenses. 1857 K. Young Let. 24 Mar. in Delhi—1857 (1902) i. 3 What think you of the mutinous proceedings of the Native regiments? 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. i. 6 Fledgeby appeared to be on the verge of some mutinous expressions. 1911 J. M. Barrie Peter & Wendy xv. 221 His reluctance to return to the cabin impressed them all unfavourably, and the mutinous sounds again broke forth. 1992 I. Berlin et al. Free at Last (1992) 483 A sergeant from Louisiana asked President Lincoln to reverse his conviction for disobedience of orders, breach of arrest, and mutinous conduct. 2011 C. Doorne in P. MacDougall & A. V. Coats Naval Mutinies 1797 xi. 187 The outbreaks took them by surprise, in that they broke out before they had had time to begin planning their own mutinous actions. 2. a. Inclined to mutiny; openly resisting the authority of a superior; rebellious, insurgent. Also in weakened sense: wilfully disobedient; defiant, uncooperative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > [adjective] wilda1300 rebel1340 rebellious?c1450 rebellant?a1475 mutinous1564 mutine1584 Whiggish1699 rebelly1705 yoof1986 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > [adjective] > of girl or woman mutine1870 mutinous1882 1564 J. Stubbs tr. T. de Bèze Hist. Life & Death Caluin sig. C.ij All the mischiefes and perilles, wherein this poore Citie hath bene, assayled within by many mutinous and desperate Citizens. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India Ep. Ded. sig. a ij Heere also is described, how to vse and correct the stubbern & mutinous persons. 1596 H. Knyvett Def. Realme (1906) 55 Whereby hee might bee drawne to dissent in loyallty, & so becoming trecheros, mutenous and rebellious, might indaunger the whole Common Wealth. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. C4 Learning doth make the minds of men..pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them..mutinous . View more context for this quotation 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 263 Finding that neither by threats nor promises he could allay the mutinous humour of the Camp. 1677 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 395 A..report that the [Masters] should be put out of the Convocation house, because that they in the election of orator had proved mutinous. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 103 He was mutinous when out of power. 1787 Gentleman's Mag. 57 1199/2 The piquets and double patroles abandoned their officers, and joined their mutinous comrades. 1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus i. 13 The troops grow mutinous. 1856 H. Melville Benito Cereno (rev. ed.) in Piazza Tales 251 The deponent observed that the negroes were now restless and mutinous. 1882 J. Sturgis Dick's Wandering iv. xliv ‘Oh, I like flirtations,’ said Miss Holcroft with her little mutinous air—‘other people's flirtations’. 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xxiii. 178 Sir Robert Peel found that, with the Press at his back, he could defy even his own mutinous followers to turn him out of office. 1895 K. Grahame Golden Age 169 At the top of the staircase Harold unexpectedly turned mutinous, insisting on his right to slide down the banisters. 1938 New Statesman 15 Jan. 87/1 They [sc. the Mensheviks] found their attitude difficult to explain to hungry workers and mutinous sailors. 1958 Spectator 4 July 19/3 The dramatic centre of the book is..the push-and-pull between Yule and his devoted but mutinous daughter. 1988 E. Feinstein Mother's Girl ix. 139 He would have liked me to share his anger. But I, too, felt tired, sometimes mutinous. 2015 A. Jaffer Lascars & Indian Ocean Seafaring iv. 144 Mutinous crews occasionally showed mercy to European members of a ship's company. b. In extended use, applied to the weather, thoughts, emotions, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > [adjective] > of words, actions, or things rebelc1430 rebellious1491 mutinousa1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 42 I haue..call'd forth the mutenous windes. View more context for this quotation 1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. iv, in Wks. (1874) IV. 69 There are in this disturbed braine of mine So many mutinous fancies. 1656 A. Cowley Davideis i. 5 in Poems His mutinous waters hurry to the war, And Troops of Waves come rolling from afar. 1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. i. 34 The mutinous Passions of Grief, Anger, and Sadness do..distract thee. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 210 He..wantonly takes my hand, and carries it to that enormous machine of his... I stroak'd it gently, on which the mutinous rogue seem'd to swell. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations v. 53 Some drive the mutinous clouds to clash in air, And..Yoke the red lightning to their volleying car. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 10 By dreadful abstinence And conquering penance of the mutinous flesh. 1838 S. Bellamy Betrayal 94 To throw the gate, already jarring on its mutinous hinge, To the parl'd foe. 1854 J. C. Bucknill Unsoundness of Mind 28 The mutinous emotions may be indomitable, the power of the will may be abortive, or the intellect may mislead. 1989 L. S. Lockridge Ethics of Romanticism vi. 304 Exercising power over others has made them powerless with respect to their own mutinous hearts. 2014 H. Dickson Traitor's Touch iv. 100 He looked at her sitting stiff and proud, her fineboned profile tilted obstinately to betray her mutinous thoughts. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [adjective] > quarrelsome sakfulc1000 strifefula1382 litigiousc1384 barratous1430 tuilyier-like1444 mellyvousc1450 toilousc1450 debatous1483 debatefula1492 sturtinga1500 squaringc1530 striving1530 contentious1533 factious1533 quarrellous?1567 quarrelsome1576 bateful1582 mutinous1589 discordful1596 tuilyiesomec1598 brabbling1603 bangling1615 brangling1621 rixosous1623 pugnacious1642 stickling1642 pugnatory1656 litigiose1677 vitilitigious1683 fire-eating1811 wranglesome1817 vitilitigating1819 combativea1834 brawlsome1845 battlesome1877 fighty1888 scrappy1895 tasty1974 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. Av Which makes our Poets vndermeale Muses so mutinous, as euerie stanzo they pen after dinner, is full poynted with a stabbe. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Lv He is verie seditious and mutinous in conuersation, picking quarrells with euerie man that [etc.]. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ix. sig. V3 Then brought he forth Sedition, breeding stryfe In troublous wits, and mutinous vprore. View more context for this quotation 1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 2 Mutinous and turbulent assemblies. 1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 77 Quarrell-some, mutinous, and mad-braine-sicke persons. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. On the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with the Pork, the Bread, &c. and in continual ill-humour. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 291 Russell had always been froward, arrogant and mutinous. B. n. With plural agreement. With the. Mutinous people as a group. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > [noun] > one who rebels > collectively rebelc1600 mutinousa1627 revolteda1645 yoof1986 a1627 J. Hayward Life & Raigne Edward Sixt (1630) 116 Charge [was] giuen that the lawes of England should be administred & the mutinous be seuerely suppressed [in Ireland]. a1687 E. Waller Maid's Tragedy Alter'd in Poems (1712) 206 Lend me your Guards, that if Perswasion fail, Force may against the Mutinous prevail. 1749 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 4 Mar. (1857) II. 147 The mutinous were likely to go great lengths, if the Admiralty had not bought off some by money, and others by relaxing in the material points. 1830 G. Croly Life & Times George IV. xiv. 359 The sound of a French gun was as the sound of a trumpet; the mutinous were instantly restored to order. 1886 M. M. Ripley tr. V. Duruy Hist. Rome V. i. lxxvii. 143 The mutinous were expelled from the army. 1977 A. Llewellyn Siege of Delhi iii. 57 The mutinous were promptly hanged or ‘blown away’. Justice was rough, but sure. 2012 J. Ludlow Son of Blood vii. 112 Her eyes then, as they ranged around the room to pick out the mutinous, were like agate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1553 |
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