Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by haste, confusion, disorder, and irregularity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disorderly; riotous; promiscuous; confused: as, a tumultuary conflict.
- Restless; agitated; unquiet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous.
- adjective Restless; agitated; unquiet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Attended by, or producing, a
tumult ;disorderly ;confused ;tumultuous . - adjective
restless ;agitated ;unquiet
Etymologies
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Examples
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At this the disaffected cohorts proclaimed the name of their lawful sovereign; the Barbarians, astonished by the defection of their Roman allies, dispersed, according to their custom, in tumultuary flight; and Mascezel obtained the of an easy, and almost bloodless, victory.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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My arrival produced a sensation that stopped all this, and I was hurried by a kind of tumultuary welcome into the parlour.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832
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Meanwhile many crowded to the spot, especially followers of Conrade and officers of the Stradiots, who, as they saw their leader lie gazing wildly on the sky, raised him up amid a tumultuary cry of “Cut the slave and his hound to pieces!”
The Talisman 2008
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Highland clans, endeavoured, with unavailing heroism, to cover the tumultuary retreat of the common file.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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At that check, the authors of these tumultuary measures fell to accusing the generals, as if they had marred the proceeding; and the Arcadians and Archaeans banded together, chiefly under the auspices of the two ringleaders, Callimachus the Parrhasian and
Anabasis 2007
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True, and a mind differing from the tumultuary opinion; for, quæ negata, grata.
The White Devil 2007
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True, and a mind differing from the tumultuary opinion; for, quæ negata, grata.
The White Devil 2007
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The crowd rushed, bearing forward and shouldering each other, out of the Court, in the same tumultuary mode in which they had entered; and, in excitation of animal motion and animal spirits, soon forgot whatever they had felt as impressive in the scene which they had witnessed.
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A few officers and soldiers followed him, but in a very irregular and tumultuary manner.
Old Mortality 2004
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In this delegation of authority, the two principal factions which divided the tumultuary army had each taken care to send three of their own number.
Old Mortality 2004
qms commented on the word tumultuary
A transplant is tricky. Results may vary.
A heart that once beat in a voluptuary
May later be placed
In one meek and chaste
And render a future tumultuary.
October 2, 2017