rabble rout
(ˈræb(ə)lraʊt)
[f. rabble n.1 + rout.]
= rabble 2, 2 b.
| 1599 Middleton Micro-Cynicon Wks. (Bullen) VIII. 129 A crew of fiddling knaves abject, The very refuse of that rabble rout. 1639 Fuller Holy War i. xii. (1840) 20 Besides these well-meaning people, there went also a rabble-rout. 1768 Wesley Jrnl. 3 June (1827) III. 327 A more rude rabble-rout I never saw. 1822 W. Irving Braceb. Hall xvi. 134 There was a rabble rout on foot. 1881 Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet I. 158 The president of the rabble rout was no other than the doctor himself. |
b. = rabble 2 c. Now rare or Obs.
| 1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Warrs Flanders 38 The rabble rout now will, and anon will not. c 1680 in Somers Tracts (1748) I. 213 Those Republicans who..lead the Rabble-rout by the plausible Cry of Religion. 1748 Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. xli, With feigned respect he bade give back The rabble rout. |