rabblementn.
/ˈrablm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈræb(ə)lm(ə)nt/ I. A group or collection.
1.
a. derogatory. A class or category of people conceived of as forming a mob; = rabble n.1 1b. Frequently with of. Also in figurative context and extended use. Now rare.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun] > other specific types of company
rabblement1536
rabble rout?1589
quorum1596
besorta1616
flying squadron1670
alliance1703
minority1837
umma1885
lads1888
minority group1919
flying squad1927
milieu1927
focus group1938
visible minority1940
enclave1945
1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Confessyon Fayth Germaynes sig. k. viii There is a great rablement of tryfelyng wryters vpon the mayster of the Sentencies, whiche do euen as it were conspire to gether in defendyng these figmentes.
1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Miii Dunsmen, and..Albertistes, together with the whole rablement of Sophistrers.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 25 All the foure footed rablement of Herbagers and grasse champers.
1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 237 Church-robbers, Traitours, and other of the same rablement.
a1659 R. Brownrig 65 Serm. (1674) I. xxi. 284 Usurers, Brokers, and the like rabblement of City-thieves.
1715 W. Whiston Several Papers relating to Mr. Whiston’s Cause before Court Delegates 32 Paul and his Cardinals, Bishops, Abbats, Monks, Friars, with the rest of the Rabblement, do nothing less intend than the knowledge and search of Truth.
a1948 M. Summers Galanty Show (1980) 157 A veritable bombshell exploded amid the anti-christian and nihilist rabblement.
1990 Quarterly (U.S.) Winter 232 If literary value could be decided by the rabblement of lemmings who have taken over all academies in the Western world, then Mr. Dark's volume would be of little interest.
b. A disorderly, disorganized, or unruly crowd; = rabble n.1 1a. Frequently with of. Now chiefly literary or Scottish and English regional (northern).
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > the rabble > a rabble
ginga1275
frapaillec1330
rabblea1398
rascal1415
rafflea1450
mardlec1480
rabblement1543
riff-raff1570
rabble rout?1589
scum1597
skim1606
tumult1629
rebel rout1648
mob1688
drabble1789
attroopment1795
scuff1856
shower1936
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous > disorderly
frapec1330
rabblea1398
rafflea1450
unlawful assembly1485
rabblement1543
rabble rout?1589
ringat-rangata1600
hurry1620
ribble-rabble1635
tempest1746
cohue1850
pig pile1880
dog pile1921
scrimmage1968
1543 T. Chaloner tr. G. Cousin Office of Seruauntes sig. C vv To what steade in a commen wealthe may soch a frothe, or rablement of raskals serue?
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark i. f. 10 Thither flocked a great rablement of souldiers.
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 99/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Two or three field peeces..skattered Thomas and his rablement.
1625 J. Stradling Divine Poems 246 Now comes the Traytor with his Iudas kisse,..His troupe a rablement of rake-hells is.
1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng Restored 131 We are not then to wonder, that..such a promiscuous rabblement were in great confusion.
1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence ii. 48 Hush'd the Hubbub of the Rabblement.
1837 New Monthly Mag. 51 118 A rude and noisy rabblement whom he could not command.
1873 E. H. Bickersteth Yesterday, Today & for Ever (ed. 8) viii. 263 They cluster'd shivering with despair and shame, A ghastly rabblement of angels.
1898 J. M. Cobban Angel of Covenant 313 The rabblement brake in upon them.
1913 J. Service Memorables Robin Cummell 7 The skreighs o' the rabblement deaved me in my dream.
1947 W. de la Mare Coll. Stories for Children (1957) 315 Hotly pursued by what appeared to be the complete rabblement of Haggursdon's cats.
2005 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 Sept. vii. 25 Packed together in their dank lodgings, sharing cots and scraps of food with a rabblement of kin.
c. With the. The socially inferior, uncouth, or disorderly element of the populace or of a particular group or body of people; also without article; = rabble n.1 1c, 1d.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > the rabble
commona1350
rascala1382
rascaldry?1457
routc1475
tag and ragc1535
riff-raff1545
rabble1549
rascabilia1557
rabblement1565
bran1574
rascability1583
rascality1583
canaille1588
canalliary1600
canaglia1607
taga1616
ribble-rabble1635
volge1639
rabble rout1650
tag-rag and bob-tail1660
mobile1676
mobility1690
mob1691
rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725
kennel1726
rough scruff1814
rough scuff1816
tag-rag1826
rascalry1827
rascalment1832
doggery1843
polloi1856
raggle-taggle1958
1565 L. Evans tr. W. Lindanus Certaine Tables sig. Eiiij Be not these the rude shameles rablement, whiche vntruthe hathe brought with her as a trayne?
1612 Trauels Foure Eng. Men Afr. 95 Messengers..sent to raise vp all the whole rabblement thereabout vpon us.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 244 As hee refus'd it, the rabblement howted. View more context for this quotation
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 257 Then came together from all places of the den Beelzebub, Lucifer, Apollyon, with the rest of the rabblement there. View more context for this quotation
1746 G. Adams Heathen Martyr 2 The furious Rabblement, Incens'd by popular Murmurs, cry'd aloud, Their ancient Gods, their Temples, Altars, Rites, Were by this Socrates prophan'd, deny'd.
1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence ii. xlv The hubbub of the rabblement.
1813 Ld. Thurlow Poems 23 The rudest rabblement With their ill darts upon her bosom glanc'd.
1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man I. i. 12 Some of the passing rabblement ordered him to desist.
1842 H. Taylor Edwin the Fair ii. iii, in Wks. (1877) II. 69 In, tag-rag—enter, rabblement—in, all!
1980 Times 11 Dec. 15/3 Those ancient sites of Rome..where the rabblement shouted and clapped their chapped hands.
2004 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 2 May In the crush to get on board the cross-channel ferry at Dover they [sc. a pair of trousers] were dashed out of her hands, over the side of the gangway and into the drink. A cheer went up from the rabblement.
d. Confusion, disturbance, or disorder such as that caused by a rabble or unruly crowd; riotous conduct; uproar.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun]
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torpelness?c1225
disturbance1297
workc1325
disturblingc1330
farec1330
frapec1330
disturbing1340
troublingc1340
blunderc1375
unresta1382
hurling1387
perturbationc1400
turbationc1400
rumblec1405
roara1413
rumourc1425
sturblance1435
troublec1435
stroublance1439
hurlc1440
hurly-burlyc1440
ruffling1440
stourc1440
rumblingc1450
sturbancec1450
unquietness?c1450
conturbationc1470
ruption1483
stir1487
wanrufe?a1505
rangat?a1513
business1514
turmoil1526
blommera1529
blunderinga1529
disturbation1529
bruyllie1535
garboil1543
bruslery1546
agitation1547
frayment1549
turmoiling1550
whirl1552
confusion1555
troublesomeness1561
rule1567
rummage1575
rabble1579
tumult1580
hurlement1585
rabblement1590
disturb1595
welter1596
coil1599
hurly1600
hurry1600
commotion1616
remotion1622
obturbation1623
stirrance1623
tumultuation1631
commoving1647
roiling1647
spudder1650
suffle1650
dissettlement1654
perturbancy1654
fermentationa1661
dissettledness1664
ferment1672
roil1690
hurry-scurry1753
vortex1761
rumpus1768
widdle1789
gilravagea1796
potheration1797
moil1824
festerment1833
burly1835
fidge1886
static1923
comess1944
frammis1946
bassa-bassa1956
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xii. sig. L8 The raskall many..Heaped together in rude rablement.
1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 125 Rabblement, Brabblement, or Squabblement.
1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow iii. v. 177 This impulse of rabblement was not restrained without a certain clamour of voices.
1923 Venerable Apr. 137 Pageants, where thou the queen of song wast hailed, And mirth and laughter with thy chariot went, In that glad time ere Luther's rabblement.
1996 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 13 Oct. b4 There are certain time-tested lead-pipe cinches to evoke rabblement: changing a comic, fouling a crossword clue and advertising exotic dancers in the Sports section.
2. A disorderly or disorganized collection; = rabble n.1 3a, 3b. Frequently with of. In later use chiefly poetic and rare.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > a confused assemblage or mixture
mishmashc1475
rabblement1539
mingle-mangle1549
bumble broth1572
bumble-bath1595
mash1601
colluvies1647
bumble1648
farrago1650
higgledy-piggledy1659
jumble1661
farrage1698
tumble1755
pie1837
Sargasso Sea1855
wirrwarra1866
chop suey1888
dog's breakfast1892
dog's dinner1902
sargasso1934
paella1939
1539 R. Morison Invective ayenste Treason sig. B vii Treason can neuer lye alone in a traytours harte, it hath suche a rablemente with it, that deathe is pleasure.
c1550 Will of Deuyle (Collier) 8 The rablement of..feined and domme ceremonies.
1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. ii. 66 The rabblement of Roman rites which Augustine..brought in.
c1632 Pinder of Wakefield i. sig. B2v Others playing on Gridirons, Tongs, Bagpipes, tinging on brasse Ketles, other some with paring Shouels, Pitch-forkes, Broomes, Maps, Spits, and such rablement.
1652 G. Collier Vindiciæ Thesium de Sabbato (1656) 44 The rabblement of Romish holi-daies.
1718 H. Mollineux Popery exposed by its Own Authors 130 It seems needless for me here to write all that I might of the great Rabblement of the Superstitions, Ceremonies, Customs and Observations of the Roman Church.
1755 tr. F. Engel New Theory Human Nature ii. 190 The common currency of a language is made up of a very insufficient and small rabblement of words, either of no meaning, or false, or indeterminate.
1987 T. Harrison Sel. Poems (ed. 2) 236 If the pit..causes the distinguished dead to drop into the rabblement of bone and rot, shored slack, crushed shale, smashed prop.
II. Senses relating to speech.
3. † a. A long string or series of words, opinions, etc.; = rabble n.1 5a. Frequently with of. Obsolete.
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1538 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Sarcerius Common Places of Script. f. xxxvi The outwarde effectes of the olde man be the outward workes or frutes of the corrupt nature and wicked minde. A rablement of them Paul heapeth vp in ye first chap. to ye Romaynes.
1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (ix.) f. 167v An hole rablement of significations and signes of an abominable desolation.
1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 845 Prayer consisteth not in a rabblement of words.
1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger i. i. 73 An whole rablement of flim flam tales.
1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week Proeme sig. A3v A rout and rabblement of critical gallimawfry.
b. A rambling, disjointed discourse or speech; = rabble n.1 5b. Now English regional (northern).
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > instance of
rotea1400
rabblec1400
rabblement1547
gabbling1599
bilka1637
ribble-row1665
sottise1673
rigmarolec1736
lockram1809
ráiméis1828
1547 R. Record Judic. Uryne 1 I wyll..overpasse the greate rablement, only taking one generall sentence.
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 85 In both his Rabblements fraught with Ribaldrie.
1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng Restored 54 To reckon up the rest of the rabblement is needless.
1777 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 353 Gl—Rabblement—Garritus, the idle Stuff—Gibble Gabble: a Belg Rabbelen.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 136 Rabblement, a long random discourse.
1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 100/1 Rabblement,..confused talk, random discourse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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