riotise
English
Alternative forms
- riotize
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌɪətʌɪz/
Noun
riotise (uncountable)
- (archaic) Wild excess; revelry, riotousness. [from 16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- 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 […]