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单词 tumultuary
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tumultuaryadj.n.

/tjuːˈmʌltjuːəri/
Etymology: < Latin tumultuārius of or belonging to hurry or tumult, raised hastily (as troops), < tumultus tumult n.: see -ary suffix1; compare French tumultuaire.
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.
b. Of a person: Acting, writing, or speaking hastily and at random; unsystematic, disorderly. Obsolete.
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).
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