ariot
adj/əˈɹaɪət/
Etymology From a- (“on, in”) + riot.
1
Postpositional Filled 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;1907, Robert W. Service, “The Law of the Yukon”, in Songs of a Sourdough, Toronto: William Briggs, page 8:
- 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.1935 February, Robert E. Howard, chapter 5, in Weird Tales:
2
Postpositional Filled 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 ariot with scarlet salvias and crimson coxcomb.
- 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 figures with dark-rimmed eyes in sinister faces, lengths of perfect black velvet and multicolored silk brocade a-riot with Oriental scenes […]2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Penguin, published 2012: