释义 |
routous, a. Law. Now arch.|ˈraʊtəs| [f. rout n.1 5 b.] Of the nature of, concerned in, constituting, a rout.
1632Star Chamber Cases (Camden) 139 Thomas Broughton, joyning..with divers others.., came in a riotous and routous manner armed to the said chappell. 1672Life & Death of J. Alleine vi. (1838) 64 As for riotous, routous and seditious assemblies he did abhor them. 1846De Quincey Wellesley Wks. 1858 VIII. 29 To be routous is nothing like so criminal in law as to be riotous. I never go beyond the routous point. |