mutinous
Adjective

mutinous

  1. Likely to commit mutiny.
    • 1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: Printed [by Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], OCLC 932932554 ↗, folio 11, recto ↗:
      [A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churlish[,] thwart, and mutinous; [...]
  2. Of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny.
Synonyms Translations
  • German: meuterisch
  • Portuguese: sedicioso
  • Spanish: sedicioso



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