Word Meanings - TUMULTUARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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;
Additional info about word: 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; agitated; unquiet. Men who live without religion live always in a tumultuary and restless state. Atterbury.
Related words: (words related to TUMULTUARY)
- PRODUCIBILITY
The quality or state of being producible. Barrow. - CONFUSIVE
Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall. - SKIRMISH
To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers. (more info) eskermir, to fence, fight, F. escrimer, of German origin; cf. OHG. scirmen to protect, defend, G. schirmen, OHG. scirm, scerm, - CONFUS
Confused, disturbed. Chaucer. - FLIGHTER
A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - EIKON
An image or effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art. - ATTENDMENT
An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne. - CONFLICTIVE
Tending to conflict; conflicting. Sir W. Hamilton. - FLIGHTINESS
The state or quality of being flighty. The flightness of her temper. Hawthorne. Syn. -- Levity; giddiness; volatility; lightness; wildness; eccentricity. See Levity. - PRODUCTIVITY
The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge. - PRODUCTUS
An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks. - CELTIC
Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue. - CONFUSABILITY
Capability of being confused. - FLIGHTY
1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak. 2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and - ATTACK
1. To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault. "Attack their lines." Dryden. 2. To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism - TUMULTER
A maker of tumults. He severely punished the tumulters. Milton. - TUMULTUARILY
In a tumultuary manner. - CONFUSEDNESS
A state of confusion. Norris. - ATTEND
L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney. - PASSIVE FLIGHT
Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power. - OVERPRODUCTION
Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill. - CRESTLESS
Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth. "Crestless yeomen." Shak. - REPRODUCTORY
Reproductive. - REPRODUCER
One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.