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▪ I. ˈroistering, vbl. n.
[f. roister v.]
The conduct of roisterers; a revel or racket.
1850E. Warburton R. Hastings II. 49 The..Lieutenant of the Tower will soon arrive, and if thou art not found in thine own cell, we shall have pretty roysterings. 1897M. Kingsley Trav. W. Africa 319 He keeps steadily at it in his way, reserving his roysterings until he is settled in life.
▪ II. ˈroistering, ppl. a.
[f. roister v.]
1. Blustering, boisterous; associated with noisy revelling; uproarious, wild.
1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 62, I thus muttred, with roystring phrensye betraynted. 1796Burke Regic. Peace iv. (1892) 337 The unfortunate antiquary..may suffer in the roystering horse-play and practical jokes of the servants' hall. 1820Scott Abbot xix, You sit singing your roistering songs about popes and pagans. 1879McCarthy Own Times xxix. II. 403 The roystering adventures of Light Dragoons. 1898Bodley France II. iv. viii. 443 Those amazing trials..which the whole community seems to enjoy as a roistering farce.
2. Of persons: Given to noisy revelling.
1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 45 A roystering country squire of the neighbourhood. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 486 The roistering Danish men were living at free quarters in the monastery. 1883Ld. R. Gower Reminis. II. 119, I found the only inn full of dirty militia⁓men and roystering farmers.
Hence ˈroisteringly adv.
1659Torriano, Alla-sbardelláta, lavishly, swaggeringly, roistringly. 1868Morn. Star Jan. 27 The students..roysteringly kissed the fair revivalists. 1893Columbus Dispatch 9 Mar., Sailors singing roysteringly or well. |