routouslyadv.
/ˈraʊtəsli/, U.S. /ˈraʊdəsli/ Law. Now rare.
In a disorderly or tumultuous manner; (later also) in such a manner as to form a rout (rout n.1 4).Usually in collocation with riotously adv. 1; in later use chiefly as part of a formulaic legal expression relating to the formation of illegal assemblies.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adverb] > riotously
riotously?1435
tempestuously1447
riotibly1509
royetously1536
tumultuously1548
disorderly1564
disorderously1579
turbulently1602
tumultuarily1609
routously1615
uproarishly1647
unguidedly1660
mobbishly1716
a-riot1834
rumbustiously1840
riotingly1846
1615 Court of Star Chamber Doc. in Spectator (1950) 12 May 641/1 (modernized text) Did violently, furiously, riotously, routously and in warlike manner march.
1680 in New Jersey Archives (1880) I. 304 Capt. Phillip Carteret..hath persisted and riotously and routously with Force and Arms, endeavoured to assert and maintain the same.
1776 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) I. 99 Many hard names..of which I believe the very gentlest and smoothest kind are riotously and routously.
1800 A. Addison Rep. Cases Pennsylvania 274 These men were indicted for having unlawfully, riotously and routously assembled together.
1826 W. Brockenbrough Virginia Cases 2 Index 616 The Defendant, with two others, was indicted for riotously and routously assembling together, to disturb the peace.
1880 Times 28 Oct. 11/3 [They] were indicted for ‘unlawfully, riotously, and routously’ assembling together.
1911 Criminal Appeal Rep. 6 109 The indictment charged that they..did ‘unlawfully riotously and routously assemble, &c. to disturb the peace’.
1953 New Jersey Statutes Ann. Title 2A cxxvi. 389 In the dispersing, seizing or arresting of any persons so unlawfully, routously, riotously and tumultuously assembled.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1615