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Definition of "tumultuary" [tu•mul•tu•a•ry]

  • Marked by haste, confusion, disorder, and irregularity. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "tumultuary" in a sentence
  • "At this the disaffected cohorts proclaimed the name of their lawful sovereign; the Barbarians, astonished by the defection of their Roman allies, dispersed, according to their custom, in tumultuary flight; and Mascezel obtained the of an easy, and almost bloodless, victory."
  • "My arrival produced a sensation that stopped all this, and I was hurried by a kind of tumultuary welcome into the parlour."
  • "Highland clans, endeavoured, with unavailing heroism, to cover the tumultuary retreat of the common file."