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▪ I. † ˈroisting, vbl. n. Obs. [f. roist v.] = roistering vbl. n.
c1560Ingelend Disobedient Child E ij, What cryinge was there for Cardes and Dyce! What roysting, what rufflyng made they within! 1584–7Greene Carde of Fancie Wks. (Grosart) IV. 14 What trouble can torment mee worse, then to see my sonne..to consume his time in roysting and ryot. 1614Rich Honestie (1844) 17 Wee must not condemne her..by her perfuming, by her ryoting, by her roysting. ▪ II. † ˈroisting, ppl. a. Obs. Also 6 ruysting, roystyng, 6–7 (9 arch.) roysting. [f. roist v.] 1. = roistering ppl. a. 1.
1567Harman Caveat (1869) 32 After their ruysting recreation. 1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 156 His Rauing Poetry, his Roisting Rhetorique. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 6 The ruffling, and roysting life of a number of our gallants, and lustie bloods. 1812W. Tennant Anster Fair iv. 2 With a roysting brazen clangour dire. 2. = roistering ppl. a. 2.
a1553Udall Royster D. Prol., Whose humour the roysting sort continually doth feede. 1594Lyly Mother Bombie i. i, She is mewed vp..least she should by some roisting courtier be stollen away. a1661Fuller Worthies, London (1662) 207 Not well pleased with some Roisting Company there, he embraced the next opportunity of departure after dinner. Hence † ˈroistingly adv. Obs.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxiv. 22 They..spew out their blasphemies feerssely and roystingly. 1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. (1586) iii. 126 Those women that love not to curle vp their haire roistinglie. 1614Latham Falconry (1633) 71 It may be at the first seeing the Doue to stirre and flutter she may come roistingly to twitch or take it away. |