Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make a tumult.

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  • intransitive verb obsolete To make a tumult.

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  • verb obsolete To make a tumult.

Etymologies

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Latin tumultuatus, past participle of tumultuari to make a tumult.

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Examples

  • The lusts of men do commonly, under such dispensations, fearfully and desperately tumultuate, to the disturbance of the most settled and weighed spirits.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • There is nothing in a man that will not dispute against this captivity of itself: innumerable proud reasonings and imaginations are set up against it; and when the mind and discursive, notional part of the soul is overpowered with the truth, yet the practical principle of the will and the affections will exceedingly tumultuate against it.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Now, these being men of the world, and being fallen into days of notable temptations, no wonder if their lusts work and tumultuate, and that to purpose.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • And if it appear so, upon examination, we shall quickly see what little reason we have to tumultuate, and rise up with indignation against the charge we suffer under.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Do not flatter yourselves that you should hold out; there are secret lusts that lie lurking in your hearts, which perhaps now stir not, which, as soon as any temptation befalls you, will rise, tumultuate, cry, disquiet, seduce, and never give over until they are either killed or satisfied.

    Of Temptation 1616-1683 1967

  • All that disadvantage which is befallen our nature by the entrance of sin is but in "the disorder of the affections and the inferior sensitive parts of the soul, which are apt to tumultuate and rebel against that pure untainted light which is in the mind!"

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • I say, then, that the first thing in mortification is the weakening of this habit, that it shall not impel and tumultuate as formerly; that it shall not entice and draw aside; that it shall not disquiet and perplex the killing of its life, vigour, promptness, and readiness to be stirring.

    Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers 1616-1683 1967

  • Temptation will give oil and fuel to our lusts, -- incite, provoke, and make then tumultuate and rage beyond measure.

    Of Temptation 1616-1683 1967

  • There is not any reprehension given to the body of the church, the multitude, or people, who are supposed to tumultuate, to quiet them, but a direction given, as was said, by the church of Rome to the persons that occasioned the difference, how to behave themselves, so that a timely issue might be put to the division of the church.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • Such a person, if he does not faint and sink in adversity, then on the contrary he will murmur and tumultuate, and blaspheme the God that afflicts him.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

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