Lexicographical Neighbors of Ructious
Literary usage of Ructious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"... That is in being ructious and unruly, If a Mimber in debate wants to argue
fair and straight, Faith they howl him out of court in " Ballyhooly. ..."
2. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"V. " II.would take as much time for us to refer to and get answers from our
constituents ae it would the royal commissioners to get fresh inet-ructious from ..."
3. Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities by Edward Wheeler Scripture, Fred Newton Scott, Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, Clarence Linton Meader, Carl Schurz, Merle Harrold Thorpe, James Geddes, Calvin Milton Woodward, Orestes Pearle Rhyne, Claud Howard, Roger Wells, Otto Eduard Lessing (1907)
"Obstinate: standing against. Offended: struck against. Old Adam: aroused.
ructious: (belching) is widely used in New England of angry states. ..."
4. Guide to the Microfilm of the Archives of Old Christ Church, Philadelphia by Melissa Druckman, Peter J. Parker, Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1981)
"One of the consequences of the chapel affair was that the vestry assumed an
assertive if not downright ructious temper. Foggo resigned in 1890 and was ..."
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