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Word Meanings - GARBOIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tumult; disturbance; disorder. Shak. (more info) uncertain origin; the last part is perh. fr. L. bullire to boil, E.

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  • ORIGINABLE
    Capable of being originated.
  • UNCERTAINTY
    1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
  • ORIGINATION
    1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
  • ORIGINANT
    Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
  • ORIGINATOR
    One who originates.
  • UNCERTAINLY
    In an uncertain manner.
  • DISTURBANCE
    The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
  • TUMULTER
    A maker of tumults. He severely punished the tumulters. Milton.
  • TUMULTUARILY
    In a tumultuary manner.
  • TUMULTUARINESS
    The quality or state of being tumultuary.
  • ORIGINATE
    To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new. A decomposition of the whole civill and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. Burke.
  • DISORDERED
    1. Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment. 2. Disorderly. Shak. -- Dis*or"dered*ly, adv. -- Dis*or"dered*ness, n.
  • ORIGIN
    The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion. Origin of coördinate axes , the point where the axes intersect. See Note under Ordinate. Syn. -- Commencement; rise;
  • ORIGINAL
    1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. His form had yet not lost
  • DISORDER
    1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And
  • TUMULTUARY
    1. Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous. "A tumultuary conflict." Eikon Basilike. A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. Macaulay. Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. De Quincey. 2. Restless;
  • TUMULTUATION
    Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid. Boyle.
  • TUMULTUOUS
    1. Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent. The flight became wild and tumultuous. Macaulay. 2. Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting. 3. Agitated, as with
  • TUMULT
    1. The commotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion. What meaneth the noise of this tumult 1 Sam. iv. 14. Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose. Pope.
  • DISORDERLINESS
    The state of being disorderly.
  • ABORIGINALLY
    Primarily.
  • ABORIGINAL
    1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth. 2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.
  • UNORIGINATELY
    Without origin.
  • DISORDERLY
    Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. (more info) 1. Not in order; marked by disorder;
  • ABORIGINALITY
    The quality of being aboriginal. Westm. Rev.

 

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