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What's The Definition Of Mutiny?
[n] open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)
[v] engage in a mutiny against an authority Synonyms | Synonyms for Mutiny: Related Terms | Find terms related to Mutiny: arise | civil disorder | disobedience | disobey | emeute | general uprising | indiscipline | insubordination | insurge | insurgence | insurgency | insurrect | insurrection | interregnum | irresponsibility | jacquerie | lawlessness | levee en masse | license | licentiousness | mount the barricades | mutineer | outbreak | overthrow | peasant revolt | power vacuum | putsch | rampant will | rebel | rebellion | reluct | reluctate | revolt | revolute | revolution | revolutionize | riot | rise | rise against | rise up | rising | run riot | strike | subversion | subversiveness | subvert | unaccountability | uncontrol | unrestraint | uprising | willfulness See Also | arise | insurrection | rebel | rebellion | revolt | rise | rise up | rising | uprising Mutiny In Webster's Dictionary \Mu"ti*ny\, n.; pl. {Mutinies}. [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 re["e]nacted 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 strife; to quarrel. [Obs.] --Shak. |
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