tumultuary

American  

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

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. )

Example Sentences

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 Milman, Henry Hart

Reviewing the whole tumultuary discussion, he began by answering Kenrick.

From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)

Both were smiling, and before them all that tumultuary array fell away as from something supernatural.

From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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

From John Knox and the Reformation by Lang, Andrew

The garden of the Tuileries was filled with the tumultuary concourse.

From Madame Roland, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)