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riota

riota, ~us [ME, AN riot] 1 revelry, undisciplined behaviour. 13‥ esset enim hic riotus / quod pro stultus horum potus / sustineret clerus totus / pudor et scandalia Mon. Francisc. II 279; c1463 quod abbas, officiarii ‥ expendirent residuum in mundanis et ~is Paston Let. 61 p. 103. 2 noisy or undisciplined argument. 1387 dantes eisdem procuratoribus ‥ potestatem plenariam ‥ paciscendi cum dicto adversario ‥ super omnibus ‥ querelis, ~is, et debatis RScot 88a. 3 brawl, riot. 1398 incidia, interfecciones, insurreciones, et ~as ‥ faciendo ‥ in pacis nostre perturbacionem Pat 351 m. 35d.; arestatio ‥ J. N. pro ~a sua contra pacem MGL I 645; s1437 vi et armis furcas ‥ noctanter exciderunt; de quibus transgressiones et ~a ‥ abbas ‥ abbatem ‥ allocutus fuit Amund. II 131; 1480 pro hujusmodi ~is, routis, conventiculis illicitis ‥ imprisonatus fuit (Pat) MonA III 169b; 1489 quod solumodo in eisdem billis suis ‥ exprimant ‥ riottum nuperrime commissum SelC Council Hen. VII 22; 1493 de punicione pro riotto Ib. 25.

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