Dictionary

tumultuary en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /tə-/ (UK, also)
• /təˈmʌlt͡ʃɚi/ (US)
• /tjʊˈmʌltʃəɹi/ (UK)
• /tjʊˈmʌltʃʊəɹi/ (UK)
• /təˈmʌlt͡ʃuˌɛɹi/ (US)
• /tjʊˈmʌltjʊəɹi/ (UK)

Etymology

Latin tumultuārius: compare French tumultuaire.

Meanings

1. Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; confused; tumultuous.
   • sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Klosterheim Or, the Masque:
   • [A] Tumultuary and distracted frame of Mind, not knowing which way to take, to be amongst the kinds of this passion of Feare. 1640, Edward Reynolds, A Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the Soule of Man, page 284:
   • a tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
   • 1649, King Charles I (attributed), Eikon Basilike a tumultuary conflict
2. restless; agitated; unquiet
   • Men who live without religion live always in a tumultuary and restless state. 1708, Francis Atterbury, Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasion, Preface:

Forms

Deriveds

tumultuariness · tumultuarily