Definition of Royster

1. n. same as Roister, Roisterer.

Definition of Royster

1. Verb. (obsolete spelling of roister) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Royster

1. to roister [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: roister

Lexicographical Neighbors of Royster

royallest
royally
royalmast
royalmasts
royalme
royals
royalties
royalty
royne
royned
roynes
royning
roynish
royst
roysted
royster (current term)
roystered
roystering
roysters
roysting
roysts
roytelet
roytelets
rozelle
rozelles
rozenite
rozenites
rozet
rozeted
rozeting

Literary usage of Royster

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1903)
"R. royster. What, she will helpe forward this my sute for hir part. M. Mery. ... R. royster. Yea a fewe. M. Mery. He is ashamed the numbre of them to shewe. ..."

2. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1903)
"R. royster. What, she will helpe forward this my sute for hir part. M. Mery. ... R. royster. She shall have the first day a whole pecke of argent. ..."

3. Shakspere and His Forerunners: Studies in Elizabethan Poetry and Its by Sidney Lanier (1902)
"I pray you when dyd ye last kiss your cowe. And so finally royster ... R. royster. Howe dothe sweet Custance, my heart of gold, tell me how ? ..."

4. Shakspere and His Forerunners: Studies in Elizabethan Poetry and Its by Sidney Lanier, Henry Wysham Lanier (1908)
"I pray you when dyd ye last kiss your cowe. And so finally royster ... R. royster. Howe dothe sweet Custance, my heart of gold, tell me how ? ..."

5. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1847)
"Up wyth some mery noyse,1 Sirs, to bring home the bride ! R. royster. ... R, royster. What, she will helpe forward this my sute, for hir part. M. Mery. ..."

6. Specimens of the Pre-Shakesperean Drama by John Matthews Manly (1897)
"30 M. MERY. What shall we then doe with hir? R. royster. ... 40 R. royster. What! she will helpe forward this my sute for hir part. M. MERY. ..."

7. Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperean Drama by John Matthews Manly (1897)
"R. royster. Armes! what dost thou? M. MERY. Fet you again out of your sound. By this crosse, ye were nigh gone in-deede ; I might feele 95 Your soule ..."

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