tumultuary

comparative more tumultuary · superlative most tumultuary

1. Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; confused; tumultuous.

   1649, King Charles I (attributed), Eikon Basilike a tumultuary conflict

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   [A] Tumultuary and distracted frame of Mind, not knowing which way to take, to be amongst the kinds of this passion of Feare.

   1640, Edward Reynolds, A Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the Soule of Man, page 284

   a tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry

   1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC

   sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish

   1832, Thomas De Quincey, Klosterheim Or, the Masque

2. restless; agitated; unquiet

   Men who live without religion live always in a tumultuary and restless state.

   1708, Francis Atterbury, Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasion, Preface