tumultuary

American  

[too-muhl-choo-er-ee, tyoo-] / tuˈmʌl tʃuˌɛr i, tju- /

adjective

1. tumultuous; turbulent.

2. confused; disorderly; haphazard.

   tumultuary habits of studying.

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Etymology

Origin of tumultuary

1580–90; < Latin tumultuārius “pertaining to bustle or hurry,” equivalent to tumultu(s) tumult + -ārius -ary ( def. )

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tumultuary

To prevent tumultuary elections, it was well that the election should be left exclusively with these great dignitaries; and this is what, by the middle of the 13th century, had eventually been done.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various

There seems, moreover, to have been some tumultuary image-breaking.

From John Knox and the Reformation by Andrew Lang

Their independent spirit soon rejected the hereditary succession of the Tanjous; and while each horde was governed by its peculiar mursa, their tumultuary council directed the public measures of the whole nation.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Henry Hart Milman

But a member of the French Convention assured Miles that the disbanding of those tumultuary forces would bring on a social crisis.

From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose

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

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