Word Meanings - RIOTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or practice of rioting; riot. "Electioneering riotry." Walpole.

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• RIOTOUS
  1. Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious. The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke xv. 13. 2. Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• RIOTRY
  The act or practice of rioting; riot. "Electioneering riotry." Walpole.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• RIOTOUR
  A rioter. Chaucer.
• ELECTIONEERER
  One who electioneers.
• RIOTER
  One who engages in a riot. See Riot, n., 3. (more info) 1. One who riots; a reveler; a roisterer. Chaucer.
• RIOTISE
  Excess; tumult; revelry. His life he led in lawless riotise. Spenser.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• ELECTIONEER
  To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate. A master of the whole art of electioneering. Macaulay.
• RIOT
  The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object. To run riot, to act wantonly or without restraint. (more info) 1. Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar;
• PATRIOTS' DAY
  A legal holiday in the States of Massachusetts and Maine, April 19, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington in 1775. It was first observed in 1894.
• CYPRIOT
  A native or inhabitant of Cyprus.
• PATRIOTIC
  Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.
• HERIOT
  Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease
• CHARIOTEE
  A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.
• COMPATRIOT
  One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling. The distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America. Palfrey.
• PATRIOT
  One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests. Bp. Hall. Such tears as patriots shaed for dying laws. Pope.
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• COPATRIOT
  A joint patriot.
• OVARIOTOMIST
  One who performs, or is skilled in, ovariotomy.