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单词 tumultuary
释义

tumultuary

English

Etymology

Latin tumultuārius: compare French tumultuaire.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /tjʊˈmʌltjʊəɹi/, /tjʊˈmʌltʃʊəɹi/, /tjʊˈmʌltʃəɹi/, (also) /tə-/
  • (US) IPA(key): /təˈmʌlt͡ʃuˌɛɹi/, /təˈmʌlt͡ʃɚi/

Adjective

tumultuary (comparative more tumultuary, superlative most tumultuary)

  1. Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; confused; tumultuous.
    • 1640, Edward Reynolds, A Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the Soule of Man, page 284:
      [A] Tumultuary and distracted frame of Mind, not knowing which way to take, to be amongst the kinds of this passion of Feare.
    • 1649, King Charles I (attributed), Eikon Basilike
      a tumultuary conflict
    • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, 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 1069526323:
      a tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry
    • 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Klosterheim Or, the Masque:
      sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish
  2. restless; agitated; unquiet
    • 1708, Francis Atterbury, Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasion : Preface
      Men who live without religion live always in a tumultuary and restless state.
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