tumultuary

English

Etymology

Latin tumultuārius: compare French tumultuaire.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tjʊˈmʌltjʊəɹi/, /tjʊˈmʌltʃʊəɹi/, /tjʊˈmʌltʃəɹi/, (also) /tə-/
• (US) IPA^(key): /təˈmʌlt͡ʃuˌɛɹi/, /təˈmʌlt͡ʃɚi/

Adjective

tumultuary (comparative more tumultuary, superlative most tumultuary)

2. Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; confused; tumultuous.
   • 1640, Edward Reynolds, A Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the Soule of Man, page 284:

     [A] Tumultuary and distracted frame of Mind, not knowing which way to take, to be amongst the kinds of this passion of Feare.

   • 1649, King Charles I (attributed), Eikon Basilike

     a tumultuary conflict

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, 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:

     a tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry

   • 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Klosterheim Or, the Masque:

     sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish

3. restless; agitated; unquiet
   • 1708, Francis Atterbury, Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasion, Preface:

     Men who live without religion live always in a tumultuary and restless state.