riotise
English
Etymology
From riot + -ise.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌɪətʌɪz/
Noun
riotise (uncountable)
- (archaic) Wild excess; revelry, riotousness. [from 16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- Which stately manner whenas they did see, / The image of superfluous riotize, / Exceeding much the state of meane degree, / They greatly wondred whence so sumptuous guize / Might be maintayned […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1: