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Webster 1913 Edition


Riotise

Ri′ot-ise

,
Noun.
Excess; tumult; revelry.
[Obs.]
His life he led in lawless
riotise
.
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Riotise

RI'OTISE

,
Noun.
Dissoluteness; luxury. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


riotise

riotise

English

Noun

riotise (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Wild excess; revelry, riotousness. [from 16th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
      Which stately manner whenas they did see, / The image of superfluous riotize, / Exceeding much the state of meane degree, / They greatly wondred whence so sumptuous guize / Might be maintayned [...].