Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • etc., n. See roister, etc.

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

  • noun same as roister, roisterer.

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  • verb Obsolete spelling of roister.

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Examples

  • Never a man to drink or what you might call royster, no way of the world but just that; but get him off to Boston, or any place where there were shells to be bought, and he'd come home fairly drunk with 'em, his trunk busting out and all his money gone.

    Nautilus Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • It was a whole lot better to royster and frolic over the world in the way I had previously done.

    Chapter 20 2010

  • This young royster did mortally hate this poore man, insomuch that he would kill his sheepe, steale his oxen, and spoyle his corne and other fruits before the time of ripenesse, yet was he not contented with this, but he would encroch upon the poore mans ground, and clayme all the heritage as his owne.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • The lack of oysters pained him much, for how could people royster

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891 Various

  • My image loomed large, and it was no wonder that they did not connect this mythical Colossus with the swaggering royster who played buffoon for their mirth.

    Montlivet Alice Prescott Smith

  • In this category also belong the revels of the drunken Pseudolus with his song and dance [155], and the final scene of the _St. _ [156], where, the action of the slender plot over, the comedy slaves royster and dance with the harlot.

    The Dramatic Values in Plautus Wilton Wallace Blanck�� 1916

  • It was a whole lot better to royster and frolic over the world in the way I had previously done.

    Chapter XX 1913

  • It was a whole lot better to royster and frolic over the world in the way I had previously done.

    John Barleycorn Jack London 1896

  • Bonny enough -- tricked oot in her furbelows, gallivantin 'wi' every royster fra Pe'rith.

    Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship Anthony Trollope 1848

  • I may pretend to know a little of the dear creatures; well, I give thee my honour, Count, that they like a royster; they love a fellow who can carry his six bottles under a silken doublet; there's vigour and manhood in it; and, then, too, what a power of toasts can a six-bottle man drink to his mistress!

    Devereux — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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  • This is beyond all bearing, screamed out the young royster with an overwhelming vehemence...

    - Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 5 ch. 1

    September 19, 2008