tumultuation

English

Etymology

Noun

tumultuation (plural tumultuations)

(obsolete) Disorderly or irregular movement; commotion.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, “[Some Specimens of an Attempt to Make Chymical Experiments Useful to Illustrate the Notions of the Corpuscular Philosophy.] A Physico-chymical Essay, Containing an Experiment with Some Considerations Touching the Differing Parts and Redintegration of Salt-petre. Section XIV.”, in Certain Physiological Essays and Other Tracts; […], 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Herringman […], published 1668, →OCLC, page 138:
  [T]hat in the ſound obſervable in our Experiment, the contiguous air receives many ſtrokes from the particles of the Liquor, ſeems probable, by the ſudden and eager tumultuation of the parts of the Liquors: […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tumultuation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)