Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Turbulence; riot; uproar.
  • noun Luxury; dissoluteness; debauchery.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Excess; tumult; revelry.

Etymologies

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From riot +‎ -ise.

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Examples

  • Covetise > Avarice (covetise = covetousness) 5 Through wasteful pride and wanton riotise, wasteful > causing ruin wanton riotise > wild extravagance, dissipation

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

  • 5 His life he led in lawless riotise, riotise > indulgence, dissipation

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

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