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noun

Rout n. A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult. "This new book the whole world makes such a rout about." ""My child, it is not well," I said, "Among the graves to shout; To laugh and play among the dead, And make this noisy rout.""

Rout n. (Formerly spelled also route)

1.

A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. (Obs.) "A route of ratones (rats)." "A great solemn route." "And ever he rode the hinderest of the route." "A rout of people there assembled were."

2.

A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people. "the endless routs of wretched thralls." "The ringleader and head of all this rout." "Nor do I name of men the common rout."

3.

The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete. "thy army... Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly." "To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those."

4.

(Law) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.

5.

A fashionable assembly, or large evening party. "At routs and dances."

To put to rout, to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight.

verb

Rout v. t. To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.

To rout out

(a)

To turn up to view, as if by rooting; to discover; to find.

(b)

To turn out by force or compulsion; as, to rout people out of bed. (Colloq.)

Rout v. t. (past & past part. routed; pres. part. routing) To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout. "That party... that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied."

Synonyms: To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow.

Rout v. i. To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. (Obs. or Scot.)

Rout v. i. To search or root in the ground, as a swine.

Rout v. i. To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company. (obs.) "In all that land no Christian(s) durste route."

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"Rout" Quotes from Famous Books

... use of the poor of the parish."[513] But the spectators did not submit to this fine without a struggle. Jeremiah Banks wrote to Williamson on September 16, 1655: "At the playhouse this week many were put to rout by the soldiers and had broken crowns; the corporal would have been entrapped had he not been vigilant."[514] And in the Weekly Intelligencer, September 11-18, we read: "It never fared worse with the spectators than at this present, for those who ...

— Shakespearean Playhouses - A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration • Joseph Quincy Adams

... to give a golden apple to her he liked best. If they might so take and choose whom they list out of all the fair maids their nation affords, they could happily condescend to marry: otherwise, &c., why should a man marry, saith another epicurean rout, what's matrimony but a matter of money? why should free nature be entrenched on, confined or obliged, to this or that man or woman, with these manacles of body and goods? &c. There are those too that dearly love, admire and ...

— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior

... familiar argument from design and beauty in nature is so inconsistent with the facts at hand, that most theists have abandoned this attitude, and the retreat from this position has been turned into a veritable rout by the steady advance of scientific knowledge. God could by exercising His omnipotence reveal His existence with overpowering conviction at any moment; yet, men have been searching for centuries for just the slightest evidence ...

— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks

... the people. [Footnote: What proportion were found to have been educated, in the very lowest sense of the term, of the burners of ricks and barns in the south-eastern counties, a few years since? What proportion of the ferocious, fanatical, and sanguinary rout who, the other day, near the centre of the metropolitan see of Canterbury, were brought into action by the madman Thom, alias Sir W. Courtenay; stout, well-fed, proud Englishmen—Englishmen "the glory of all ...

— An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance • John Foster

... him,' replied she, yawning—'except that he went about a month ago—I never asked where' (I would have asked whether it was to a living or merely another curacy, but thought it better not); 'and the people made a great rout about his leaving,' continued she, 'much to Mr. Hatfield's displeasure; for Hatfield didn't like him, because he had too much influence with the common people, and because he was not sufficiently tractable and submissive to him—and for ...

— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte

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