tumultuary
Americanadjective
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tumultuous; turbulent.
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confused; disorderly; haphazard.
tumultuary habits of studying.
Etymology
Origin of tumultuary
1580–90; < Latin tumultuārius “pertaining to bustle or hurry,” equivalent to tumultu(s) tumult + -ārius -ary ( def. )
Example Sentences
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To all these tumultuary questions I could find no answer; and, in the turmoil of my mind, nothing was plain except the hateful, leering image of the woman.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The tumultuary acclamation * was instantly repeated by the guards who surrounded the tent, and passed, in a few minutes, to the extremities of the line.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Henry Hart Milman
Both were smiling, and before them all that tumultuary array fell away as from something supernatural.
From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
These and other measures taken by him tended to produce a strong veteran army, very different in efficiency from the tumultuary levy, to which recourse was had only in the last resort.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
True, and a mind differing from the tumultuary opinion; for, quæ negata, grata.
From The White Devil by John Webster
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