v. Now rare. [f. ppl. stem of L. tumultuārī to make a bustle or disturbance: see -ATE3.]
1. intr. To stir up a tumult; to make a disturbance or commotion; to become or be tumultuous, turbulent, agitated, or restless.
1611. [see tumultuating below].
1616. Jas. I., Sp. Star. Chamb., 20 June, 35. Acquiesce in the Iudgement, and doe not tumultuate against it.
1671. R. Bohun, Wind, 27. Noise of Winds, that … tumultuate.
a. 1734. North, Exam., I. ii. § 44 (1740), 51. To afflict the poor People … to make them restless and apt to tumultuate.
1860. W. Arnot, Laws fr. Heaven, 268. The dread of evil and the desire of good tumultuate and struggle for the mastery in a human breast.
2. trans. To excite to tumult, put into a state of tumult, make tumultuous; to disorder or disturb violently.
1616. Jas. I., Sp. Star-Chamb., 20 June, 44. Tumultuating the countrey.
1661. R. L’Estrange, Interest Mistaken, Ded. 2. Their Ayme being to Tumultuate the People.
1768. [W. Donaldson], Life Sir B. Sapskull, II. Ded. 3. The street … was tumultuated with the loud roar of … raps, perpetually thundering at my … door!
1820. Blackw. Mag., VII. 316. The feelings that tumultuate the heart of a father.
Hence Tumultuating vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. viii. (1623), 574. Hauing let loose many tumultuating Spirits.
1642. Hales, Gold. Rem., Tract on Schism (1673), 5. Ecclesiastical stories…, of which the greatest [part] consists of factionating and tumultuating of great and potent Bishops.
1815. J. Love, Lett. (1840), 367. Whatever be the tumultuating of flesh and blood.
1854. Mar. Harland, Alone, xxxi. Tumultuating passions were stilled into a calm, delicious ecstasy.
