Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
roister .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb See
roister .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
roister .
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Examples
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For, standing upon their reputation and liberty, they ruffle and roist it out, exceeding in apparel, and banting riotous company (which draweth them from their books unto another trade), and for excuse, when they are charged with breach of all good order, think it sufficient to say that they be gentlemen, which grieveth many not a little.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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For, standing upon their reputation and liberty, they ruffle and roist it out, exceeding in apparel, and banting riotous company which draweth them from their books unto another trade), and for excuse, when they are charged with breach of all good order, think it sufficient to say that they be gentlemen, which grieveth many not a little.
Of Universities. Chapter XVIII. [1577, Book II., Chapter 6; 1587, Book II., Chapter 3 1909
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