Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a tumultuary or disorderly manner.
- Without system or order.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a tumultuary manner.
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- adverb In a
tumultuary manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There are no characters in Aubrey's _Brief Lives_, which are only a series of rough jottings by a prince of gossips, who collected what he could and put it all on paper 'tumultuarily'.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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The notes were written 'tumultuarily', jotted down hastily, and as hastily added to, altered, and transposed.
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'I have, according to your desire', he wrote to Wood in 1680, 'putt in writing these minutes of lives tumultuarily, as they occur'd to my thoughts or as occasionally I had information of them ....
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