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▪ I. roister, n.1 Now arch.|ˈrɔɪstə(r)|
Also 7–9 royster.
[ad. F. rustre († ruistre), ‘a ruffin, royster, hackster, swaggerer’ (Cotgr.), var., with excrescent r, of ruste:—L. rustic-um rustic a.]
1. A swaggering or blustering bully; a riotous fellow; a rude or noisy reveller.
Very common c 1550–1700; now usually roisterer.
1551T. Wilson Logike L vij b, Yf slaughter be not to be borne..these roisters, and fighters, are not to be suffered to go vnpunished. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 97/2 We must not play y⊇ iollie roysters, we must not spred abroad our wings. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 446 Such roysters and rake-shames as Mars is manned with. 1649Milton Eikon. iv, His adherents, consisting most of dissolute Swordmen and Suburb roysters, hardly amounted to one ragged regiment. 1687T. Brown Saints in Uproar Wks. 1730 I. 74 Why, how now, bully Royster, what's the meaning of this outrage in the face of Iustice? 1753–4Richardson Grandison (1781) VI. 269 Mr. Greville is a roister. 1797Brydges Hom. Trav. II. 410 These roysters batter The walls and gates with dreadful clatter. 1820W. Irving Sk. Bk. I. 75 He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick upon him. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. Wks. (Bohn) III. 26 If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede.
attrib. and Comb.1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 188 Busie fault finder..is roister like ruffen. 1611Cotgr., Rustrement, royster-like; sawcily. 1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. xiv. (1737) II. 113, I..with my cords tied him royster-like both hand and foot. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. vii. 24 The Moon..doth not so much as look as if she liked such Roister-company.
b. dial. A romp.
1790–in Eng. Dial. Dict.
2. ‘A hound that opens on a false scent.’
1796Grose's Dict. Vulg. T. (ed. 3).
▪ II. ˈroister, n.2 rare—1.
[f. the vb.]
The act of roistering.
1860Cornh. Mag. Sept. 359 Some beau who had been on the roister all night.
▪ III. ˈroister, v.
Also royster.
[f. roister n.1]
= roist v.
1582[see roistering ppl. a. 1]. 1663J. H. Hist. O. Cromwell ii. 5 He was presently removed..to Lincoln's Inne, where he might with less imputation..royster it out. 1796[see roistering ppl. a. 1]. 1850Struthers Poet. Wks. II. 241 Who will may strut philosophizing, And, in his frenzied furor, royster. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xvi, He might have..roystered it in taverns with Marlowe. 1893Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita I. 118 Acquaintances who had roistered or dealt with him.
transf.1879Lowell Poet. Wks. 371 The wind is roistering out of doors. |