adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a tumultuous manner; with tumult or commotion; with confusion and uproar; riotously.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Matt. xii. 53 b. He shall not do this tumultuously or violently. For he shall not chide, nor … crye oute.
1617. Moryson, Itin., III. 27. If they tumultiously revenge thy wrong.
a. 1768. Abp. Secker, Serm. (1771), V. xviii. 431. Death … suddenly and tumultuously inflicted.
1834. L. Ritchie, Wand. by Seine, 166. The clang of innumerable church-bells comes tumultuously on the breeze.
1857. Miller, Elem. Chem. (1862), III. 118. The reaction … is apt to become tumultuously violent.
† b. Seditiously: cf. prec. 1 b. Obs.
1682. Addr. Lond. Freemen, in Lond. Gaz., No. 1738/2. Being Popishly and Tumultuously Inclined.
† c. Hurriedly and irregularly; in a hurry, without order or system: cf. TUMULTUARILY 1. Obs.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. lxxvi. § 6. They attempted tumultuously they saw not what.
1726. Leoni, trans. Alberti’s Archit., II. 8/2. The Wall of Athens … was built so tumultuously that they even threw into it some of the Statues.
