† mutiner Obs.
Also 7 mutener.
[f. mutine v. + -er1. Cf. mutineer.]
A turbulent, rebellious, or mutinous person; a mutineer.
| 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diod. Sic. ii. xxix. 81 He put to death the principall mutiners. 1589 Pappe w. Hatchet A iv, These mutiners in Church matters, must haue their mouthes bungd with iests, not arguments. 1602 Segar Hon., Mil. & Civ. i. iii. 5 According to discipline Militarie, [to] compell Muteners to obedience and order. a 1677 Barrow Serm. (1686) III. 277 They [sc. seducers] were..murmurers, complainers, or conjunctly discontented mutiners. |