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roysterer
roysterer
English
Noun
roysterer (plural roysterers)
- (obsolete) Someone who revels, a partier
- 1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path To Rome
- When his father saw him he fumed terribly, cursing like a pagan, and asking whether his son were a roysterer fit for the gallows as well as a fool fit for a cassock. On hearing which complaint the son very humbly and contritely said
- 'It is not my fault but the contact with the things of the Church that makes me gambol and frisk, just as the Devil they say is a good enough fellow left to himself and is only moderately heated, yet when you put him into holy water all the world is witness how he hisses and boils.'
- 1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path To Rome