▪ I. ˈrioting, vbl. n.
[f. riot v.]
1. † Dissoluteness of life, debauchery (obs.); revelry.
| 1599 Hakluyt Voy. I. 11 In the meane season he and his companions spent their time in robbing and rioting. 1611 Bible Rom. xiii. 13 Let vs walke honestly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkennesse. 1627 Sanderson Serm. (1632) 555 Gaming, and reuelling, and ryoting, and roaring. |
| 1820 Keats Lamia i. 214 And sometimes into cities she would send Her dream, with feast and rioting to blend. 1861 Geo. Eliot Silas M. 25 A life in which the days would not seem too long, even without rioting. 1891 Kipling Light that Failed (1900) 230 There was no more rioting in the chambers. |
| fig. 1801 Wordsw. Cuckoo & Night. xx, I heard the lusty Nightingale so sing, That her clear voice made a loud rioting. |
2. The action or fact of taking part in or raising a riot, tumult, or disturbance of the peace.
| a 1832 Mackintosh Hist. Revol. Wks. 1846 II. 110 The lawyers..prosecuted the offenders, merely for rioting in violation of certain ancient statutes, some of which rendered that offence capital. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxii. IV. 728 There was..no such discontent, no such rioting, as he had described. 1886 Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Europe (1889) 590 Industrial crises..[are] the results of laws, which are not to be withstood by impatient rioting. |
▪ II. ˈrioting, ppl. a.
[f. riot v.]
Acting in a riotous manner.
| 1887 Bowen Virg. æneid v. 137 Through rioting pulses run Throbbing fear and desire. 1891 Daily News 6 Mar. 3/1 The police..were pelted with iron rivets by a rioting mob. |
So ˈriotingly adv.
| 1824 Landor Imag. Conv., Southey & Porson, Whortle⁓berries..extending the hard slenderness of their fibres, at random and riotingly, over their native wastes. |