单词 | rioting |
释义 | riotingn. 1. Originally: †excessive revelry or merriment; dissoluteness; debauchery (obsolete). Later in weakened use, often without negative connotation of excess: revelry, lively festivities. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] ribaldyc1300 riotc1330 ribaldry1389 riotingc1390 riotry?a1400 wildnessc1400 arrioutc1410 ramageness1440 ribaldise?c1450 unthriftinessc1450 ramagec1485 riotousness?1535 royet1542 dissoluteness1549 ruffianing1549 riotness1553 wildernessa1616 debauchery1642 profligateness1668 profligacy1693 rakishness1737 rakism1777 profligation1805 rouéism1828 society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun] > noisy or riotous riotingc1390 revelling1395 revelc1400 revelryc1410 revel-rout?1499 jetting1509 deray?a1513 company keeping1529 banqueting1535 roistingc1560 wassailinga1586 riotise1590 roister-doisterdom1592 reels1603 roaring1617 ranting1633 rattle1688 high jinks1699 roistering1805 spree1808 wassailry1814 revelment1822 Tom and Jerryism1822 spreeing1845 to be on the roister1860 riotousness1882 whoopee1928 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > sensual indulgence or gratification > excessive riotingc1390 intemperancy1532 royet1542 intemperance1547 intemperateness1571 c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 27 (MED) Boxum me make wiþ-oute feyning, And glad wiþ-outen ryotyng. a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) sig. Aiii With banketynge braynlesse With ryotynge rechelesse With gambaudynge thryftlesse. 1535 W. Marshall tr. Marsilius of Padua Def. of Peace vi. f. 66 Men shulde lede a sobre lyfe, & vse temperate dyete, and shulde be brought backe agayne from ryotynge or surfetynge. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. Camden in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 11 In the meane season he and his companions spent their time in robbing and rioting. 1611 Bible (King James) Rom. xiii. 13 Let vs walke honestly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkennesse. View more context for this quotation 1628 R. Sanderson Two Serm. Paules-Crosse ii. 121 Gaming, and reuelling, and ryoting, and roaring. 1698 G. Ridpath Stage Condemn'd 84 Our Religion..condemns all Rioting, Chambering, Wantonness, and making Provision for the Flesh. 1713 Sin Punished 13 Rioting, Gluttony, Drunkenness, and all sorts of Gaming, are Consumers of the Means and Estates of Men. 1756 E. Perronet Mitre iv. xxvi. 223 Go wander thro' the land, What can ye find on either hand, But rioting or want? 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 15 And sometimes into cities she would send Her dream, with feast and rioting to blend. 1841 W. Wordsworth in R. H. Horne Poems G. Chaucer, Modernized 42 I heard the lusty Nightingale so sing, That her clear voice made a loud rioting. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iii. 55 A life in which the days would not seem too long, even without rioting. 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xiv. 268 There was no more rioting in the chambers. 1920 D. O. Hamilton Four Gardens (1971) 16 While in Bacchic rioting as free and wild as wind they [sc. falling leaves] go Comes the first flutter of..snow. 1957 M. R. Proctor Eng. University Novel iv. 62 Embarking on a life of drinking, gambling, and rioting which not only put an end to hard work but placed him seriously in debt. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > devastation or desolation harryingc900 harrowingc1000 wastinga1300 destructionc1330 harryc1330 wastenessa1382 wastitya1382 desolation1382 unroningnessa1400 wrackc1407 exile1436 havoc1480 hership1487 vastation1545 vastitude1545 sackc1550 population1552 waste1560 ravishment1570 riotingc1580 pull-down1588 desolating1591 degast1592 devastation1603 ravage1611 wracking1611 ravagement1766 herriment1787 carnage1848 wastage1909 enhavocking- c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1921) II. ii. 2730 The assaltis count I na thing, Ȝit prys I les this rioting. 3. The violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd; the action participating in such a disturbance. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > action of rioting rout1429 tumultuating1611 tumulting1658 rioting1768 1768 Monthly Rev. Apr. 281 In the South of England likewise, about the above-named manufacturing towns, was much rioting. 1798 Scots Mag. May 361/2 All accused of mobbing and rioting. a1832 J. Mackintosh Hist. Revol. Eng. (1834) iv. 102 The lawyers..prosecuted the offenders, merely for rioting in violation of certain ancient statutes, some of which rendered that offence capital. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxii. 728 There was..no such discontent, no such rioting, as he had described. 1886 A. Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Europe (1889) 590 Industrial crises..[are] the results of laws, which are not to be withstood by impatient rioting. 1915 H. G. Wells Res. Magnificent vi. 419 Suddenly a long incubated quarrel flared out in rioting and violence, the burning of houses and furniture, attacks on mines, attempts to dynamite trains. 1961 Life 15 Dec. 33 Presently the well-armed members of the Force Publique..erupted in mutiny, rioting, raping and looting. 2005 FHM Jan. 138/2 When word spread of rioting in Oldham, bruisers from across the country rolled up. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). riotingadj. 1. Wild, uncontrolled, riotous; (in early use) spec. †dissolute, dissipated (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [adjective] riotousc1431 unruly1439 tumultuous1548 rioting1567 brabbling1577 roaring1584 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest iii. f. 103 It [sc. the sparrow] is in his kinde very lasciuious and rioting. 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) ii. i, in Wks. I. 20 Out of their impetuous rioting phant'sies, Beget some slander, that shall dwell with me. 1701 T. Baker Humour of Age i. i. 5 'Tis we that execute 'em against such lewd Rioting Sparks as you, that every day study to evade 'em. 1761 G. Colman Jealous Wife i. 8 A debauched Batchelor—A rattle-brain'd, rioting, Fellow. 1815 Christian Disciple June 177/2 Your minds would be a rioting hall of wild imaginations, distressful thoughts and agonizing fears. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid v, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 227 Through rioting pulses run Throbbing fear and desire. 1915 N. W. Putnam Little Missioner xviii. 233 This place of youth and sunshine and rioting flowers. 2008 S. Kambalu Jive Talker 142 All in different luminous and rioting colours. 2. Of a group of people: causing a violent disturbance of the peace; participating in a riot. ΚΠ 1863 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 18 July The many groups of spectators who had followed quietly in the rear of the rioting mob were dispersed. 1891 Daily News 6 Mar. 3/1 The police..were pelted with iron rivets by a rioting mob. 1938 Life 4 Apr. 12 (caption) The Hoover Depression had spectacular offshoots—breadlines, hunger marchers, bank runs, rioting farmers, rabble-rousers. 1973 Times 2 Feb. 19/4 A newspaper picture encapsulates a singe scene—a blazing building, a rioting mob or a wounded soldier. 2001 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 29 Aug. 3/1 Rioting asylum-seekers were blasted with water cannon and tear gas. Derivatives ˈriotingly adv. rare riotously. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adverb] > riotously riotously?1435 tempestuously1447 riotibly1509 royetously1536 tumultuously1548 disorderly1564 disorderously1579 turbulently1602 tumultuarily1609 routously1615 uproarishly1647 unguidedly1660 mobbishly1716 a-riot1834 rumbustiously1840 riotingly1846 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 83/2 Whortleberries..extending the hard slenderness of their fibres, at random and riotingly, over their native wastes. 2006 Hindu (Electronic ed.) 27 May (caption) Connoisseurs of colours will surely get psyched out by the rows of riotingly ravishing hats outshining the summer on Gandhi Museum Road. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1390adj.1567 |
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