A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1599, 1672
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Tumultuarly, -ie, adv. [e.m.E. tumultuarilie (1590).] Hastily, without due consideration; randomly, without order. —1599 Acts IV 181/1.
Thir materis sould nawayes be precipitat or haistielie and tumultuarlie handlit bot rather with guid aduyse and mature deliberatioun concludit —1672 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 707.
Any face it may seem to have of a harbour is only some few stones tumultuarly … gathered together by the industry of the heritors of that land, for their own private use
