Word Meanings - RIOTISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Excess; tumult; revelry. His life he led in lawless riotise. Spenser.

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• RIOTISE
  Excess; tumult; revelry. His life he led in lawless riotise. Spenser.
• TUMULTER
  A maker of tumults. He severely punished the tumulters. Milton.
• TUMULTUARILY
  In a tumultuary manner.
• TUMULTUARINESS
  The quality or state of being tumultuary.
• REVELRY
  The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling. And pomp and feast and revelry. Milton.
• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• TUMULTUARY
  1. Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous. "A tumultuary conflict." Eikon Basilike. A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. Macaulay. Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. De Quincey. 2. Restless;
• TUMULTUATION
  Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid. Boyle.
• TUMULTUOUS
  1. Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent. The flight became wild and tumultuous. Macaulay. 2. Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting. 3. Agitated, as with
• TUMULT
  1. The commotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion. What meaneth the noise of this tumult 1 Sam. iv. 14. Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose. Pope.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• LAWLESS
  1. Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a lawless claim. He needs no indirect nor lawless course. Shak. 2. Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or of society; as, lawless men or behavior. 3. Not subject to the laws
• TUMULTUATE
  To make a tumult. "He will murmur and tumultuate." South.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• CLAWLESS
  Destitute of claws.
• FLAWLESS
  Free from flaws. Boyle.