adv. [f. TUMULTUARY + -LY2.] In a tumultuary manner.
1. Hastily and without order; irregularly, confusedly, unsystematically, at random.
1590. Sir J. Smyth, Disc. Weapons, Ded. 5. Ciuill warres,… maintained … tumultuarilie … by spoyle, sedition, passion, and faction.
1613–8. Daniel, Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626), 5. The … souldiers … tumultuarilie proclaimed Emperour one Marcus.
1676. Evelyn, in Aubrey, Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719), I. Pref. 9. I have set things down tumultuarily, as they came into my … thoughts.
1695. H. Dodwell, Def. Vind. Deprived Bps., 1. More hastily and tumultuarily laid together.
2. With tumult or disturbance; tumultuously.
1609. Daniel, Civ. Wars, I. xii., margin. Stephen … contendes with Maude the Empresse for the succession, and raigned tumultuarily 18 yeares and 10 monethes.
1647. Jer. Taylor, Lib. Proph., Ep. Ded. 20. Arrius behav’d himselfe so seditiously and tumultuarily.
1682. T. Flatman, Heraclitus Ridens, No. 74 (1713), II. 203. Those so tumultuarily assembled and so outragious.
So Tumultuariness, the quality of being tumultuary; in quots., disposition to tumult.
1648. Eikon Bas., xvii. 148. The tumultuariness of People.
1653. Gauden, Hierash., 24. Tumultuariness, faction, and sedition.
