MUTINY

mutiny

(noun) open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)

mutiny

(verb) engage in a mutiny against an authority

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

mutiny (countable and uncountable, plural mutinies)

An organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers.

Violent commotion; tumult; strife.

Verb

mutiny (third-person singular simple present mutinies, present participle mutinying, simple past and past participle mutinied)

(intransitive) To commit mutiny.

Anagrams

• munity

Source: Wiktionary

Mu"ti*ny, n.; pl. Mutinies. Etym: [From mutine to mutiny, fr. F. se mutiner, fr. F. mutin stubborn, mutinous, fr. OF. meute riot, LL. movita, fr. movitus, for L. motus, p.p. of movere to move. See Move.]

1. Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior officer; hence, generally, forcible resistance to rightful authority; insubordination. In every mutiny against the discipline of the college, he was the ringleader. Macaulay.

2. Violent commotion; tumult; strife. [Obs.] o raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves. Shak. Mutiny act (Law), an English statute reënacted annually to punish mutiny and desertion. Wharton.

Syn.

– See Insurrection.

Mu"ti*ny, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mutinied; p. pr. & vb. n. Mutinying.]

1. To rise against, or refuse to obey, lawful authority in military or naval service; to excite, or to be guilty of, mutiny or mutinous conduct; to revolt against one's superior officer, or any rightful authority.

2. To fall into strifle; to quarrel. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition