Definition of Roistering

1. Verb. (present participle of roister) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Roistering

1. roister [v] - See also: roister

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roistering

roiliest
roiling
roils
roily
roin
roined
roining
roinish
roins
roist
roisted
roister
roistered
roisterer
roisterers
roistering
roisterly
roisterous
roisterously
roisters
roisting
roists
rojak
roji
rojis
rok
roke
roked
rokelay
rokelays

Literary usage of Roistering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The School of Shakspere by William Shakespeare, J. W. M. Gibbs (1878)
"He, however, dislikes the law, and has become a roistering city gallant and spendthrift. ... The town's governor is Captain Herbert, a sometime roistering ..."

2. Official Report of the Thirteenth Universal Peace Congress: Held at Boston (1904)
"It seemed more probable to that showman that two acts of creation should have taken place than that the roistering boy who went poaching should ever have ..."

3. Official Report of the Thirteenth Universal Peace Congress: Held at Boston (1904)
"It seemed more probable to that showman that two acts of creation should have taken place than that the roistering boy who went poaching should ever have ..."

4. The U-boat Hunters by James Brendan Connolly (1918)
"Are they doing great work or are they tied up to a dock at the naval base, and their officers and crews roistering ashore ?" I can say from several weeks' ..."

5. Europe Viewed Through American Spectacles by Charles Carroll Fulton (1874)
"Any youth of a wealthy family coming here and going earnestly to study, and refusing to join any of these roistering and beer-drinking societies, ..."

6. Colonial facts and fictions by Mark Kershaw (1886)
"When you are roistering, your father and mother in Britain may be praying; and when your father and mother in Britain are roistering, you may be praying. ..."

7. Furope Viewed Through American Spectacles by Charles Carroll Fulton (1874)
"The majority of them are turned out upon the world professors of nothing but roistering and beer-swilling. After four years of such life as they have led at ..."

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