/əˈɹaɪət/
OriginFrom a- (“on, in”) + riot.
- not-comparable, postpositionalFilled with or involving rioting or riotous behaviour.
“In the camp at the bend of the river, with its dozen saloons aglare,
Its gambling dens ariot, its gramophones all ablare;”
“It was a red drama of the primitive—destruction amuck and ariot, the primordial embodied in fangs and talons, gone mad and plunging in slaughter.”
- not-comparable, postpositionalFilled in an unrestrained manner.
“1896, Octave Thanet (pseudonym of Alice French, “The Captured Dream” in A Book of True Lovers, Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897, p. 262,
[…] a white fence glittered in front of an old fashioned garden ar”
“The rooms seemed to run on for blocks, stuffed with automata human and animal assembled and in pieces, disappearing-cabinets, tables that would float in midair and other trick furniture, Davenport fig”
Formsa-riot(alternative)