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Definition of Tumultuary
1. a. Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous.
Definition of Tumultuary
1. Adjective. Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; confused; tumultuous. ¹
2. Adjective. restless; agitated; unquiet ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tumultuary
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumultuary
Literary usage of Tumultuary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... and barbarians of the frontier, was the only order of men who preserved and
abused their independence. By their tumultuary election, a Syrian, a Goth, ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"No state court has adjudged that tumultuary taking by a mob in a port of the
United States is lawful capture. The state courts of New York have decided that ..."
3. Rambles in Yucatan: Or, Notes of Travel Through the Peninsula, Including a by Benjamin Moore Norman (1843)
"... Civil Revolution — A tumultuary Movement in the Interior — Santiago Iman —
Attack on Espita — Retreat to San Fernando—Quiet Restored fora Time— Colonel ..."
4. Rambles in Yucatan: Or, Notes of Travel Through the Peninsula, Including a by Benjamin Moore Norman (1843)
"... Civil Revolution— A tumultuary Movement in the Interior—Santiago Iman —Attack
on Espita—Retreat to San Fernando—Quiet Restored for a Time — Colonel ..."
5. A History of the Commonwealth of Florence: From the Earliest Independence of by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1865)
"Injustice to Michele Lando—His measures for the government of the city— tumultuary
enactment of laws by the populace—Election of the new Signory for ..."
6. Burnet's History of My Own Time by Gilbert Burnet (1900)
"Thus ended this tumultuary rebellion, which went by the name of Bothwell-bridge,
where the action was. ..."
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