riotise

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From riot +‎ -ise.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

riotise (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Wild excess; revelry, riotousness. [from 16th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      Which stately manner whenas they did see, / The image of superfluous riotize, / Exceeding much the state of meane degree, / They greatly wondred whence so sumptuous guize / Might be maintayned []