单词 | tumultuary |
释义 | tumultuaryadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of troops: Gathered hastily and promiscuously, without order or system; irregular, undisciplined. Also of warfare, etc. carried on by such troops, or in an irregular way. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [adjective] > irregular tumultuary1590 irregular1856 non-regular1919 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. 2 b The tumultuarie and disordered wars of the Lowe Countries. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. viii. ii. 289 A tumultuarie armie in great hast levied..out of all quarters. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. (1817) I. ii. 396 With tumultuary..violence, they fell upon the churches. 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. vii. iv. 165 A tumultuary attack, which was repelled by the garrison. 2. a. Hurriedly done; irregular, disorderly, confused; haphazard, unsystematic, random. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective] troublec1374 misorderlya1568 unorderly1578 luxate1597 incomposed1608 methodless1609 tumultuary1609 unordered1621 disorderly1632 higgledy-piggledy1676 rantum-scantum1695 throughother1720 rough and tumble1818 ramshackle1820 skimble-skamble1826 ahoo1828 disordinate1840 disorganic1841 ramshackly1883 rantum-scootum1885 tumultuarious1895 ragtime1917 inchoate1922 higgledya1953 shambolic1970 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 245 In hast and in tumultuarie manner. 1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 22 Content with a tumultuarie learning. a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) 772 So tumultuary and confused a Discourse. 1771 J. Macpherson Introd. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland 235 Their resolutions must..have been tumultuary and precipitate. 1843 Church St. Anselm & Hen. I ⁋4 The tumultuary beginnings of society. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vii. xxv. 501 Ashamed of their tumultuary injustice. ΚΠ 1619 E. M. Bolton in tr. Florus Rom. Hist. To Rdr. sig. A4v With Mathematicall Stadius, Florvs is but a tumultuarie author. 1644 J. Bulwer Chironomia Præludium sig. A8, in Chirologia Those upstart and tumultuarie Oratours. 1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη vi. 40 Whatever tumultuary Patrons shall project. 3. Disposed to, marked by, or of the nature of tumult; tumultuous, turbulent. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > riotous tempestousc1374 tempestuous1447 uproarish1550 tumultuous1576 routious1602 tumultuary1650 ramp1678 mobbish1695 royet1737 riotous1775 rumbustiousa1777 rumbustical1779 rampageous1800 rioty1819 rampacious1836 tempestive1848 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [adjective] troublousc1449 unquiet?1520 troublesome1548 tumultuous1548 disturbed1593 hurly-burly1598 wild1600 unsettled1605 routing1634 tumultuary1650 dissettled1673 embroiled1709 weltering1831 1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples i. 42 Against the will of a tumultuary people. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 13 The tumultuary disorders of our passions. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Pref. sig. A4 The..tumultuary motion of the Atoms. 1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xiii. 229 This confused Tumultuary Noise. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 404/1 The reign of Governor King..was a tumultuary period. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lviii. 174 Struggling with a tumultuary crowd of thoughts. B. n. in plural. Tumultuary forces: see A. 1. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > irregulars tumultuary1654 watch1739 irregular1747 campoo1803 pioneer corps1845 harka1903 Legion of Frontiersmen1905 non-regular1909 1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 76 The Tumultuaries expecting..better progress. 1830 G. P. R. James Darnley III. vii. 163 The leader of the tumultuaries. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.n.1590 |
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