ariot

English

Alternative forms

• a-riot

Etymology

a- (“on, in”) +‎ riot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹaɪət/
• Rhymes: -aɪət

Adjective

ariot (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) Filled with or involving rioting or riotous behaviour.
   • 1907, Robert W. Service, “The Law of the Yukon”, in Songs of a Sourdough‎^[1], Toronto: William Briggs, page 8:

     In the camp at the bend of the river, with its dozen saloons aglare,
     Its gambling dens ariot, its gramophones all ablare;

   • 1935 February, Robert E. Howard, chapter 5, in Weird Tales:

     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.

2. (postpositive) 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,^[2]

     […] a white fence glittered in front of an old fashioned garden ariot with scarlet salvias and crimson coxcomb.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day‎^[3], Penguin, published 2012:

     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 […]

Anagrams

• Artio, Otira, artoi, atrio-, iatro-, ratio