riotise

English

Etymology

From riot +‎ -ise.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌɪətʌɪz/

Noun

riotise (uncountable)

1. (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 […]