Middle English Dictionary Entry
tumult(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | tumult(e n. Also tumolte. |
| Etymology | OF tumult(e, tumolte & L tumultus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Noise, esp. confused and disorderly speech; uproar, commotion, hurly-burly; also, an instance of such noise or commotion.
Associated quotations
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.5235 : Al tumulte stinted, and silence Was þoruȝ þe pres to ȝif hym audyence.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.1143 : Nat only þei, but, þoruȝ inpacience, Þe court parturbid, with-oute prouidence, With tumult gonne to repreue Þis Achilles.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.5507 : Þer was herde a noyse merveilous, A gret tumulte and a wounder soun, Like as it were a lamentacioun Of sondri folke.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.pr.3.77 : We..ben heghe above, syker fro alle tumolte and wood noyse, warnstoryd and enclosed in swiche a palys whider as that chaterynge or anoyinge folye ne may nat atayne.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)109 : Than be-gan in the town a gret tumulte and a merveilouse, and eueriche man seide, 'Lo, here is Merlin.'
- a1500 Discip.Cler.(Wor F.172)58 : Proverbialy thei seyn that Socrates eschewid the tumult and the multitude of worldly people.
- a1500 Let.Alex.(Wor F.172)223 : Than sodainly sprang and ros a tumulte and a noice.