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noun

Mutiny n. (pl. mutinies)

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."

Violent commotion; tumult; strife. (Obs.) "To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves."

Mutiny act (Law), an English statute reenacted annually to punish mutiny and desertion.

Synonyms: See Insurrection.

verb

Mutiny v. i. (past & past part. mutinied; pres. part. mutinying)

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.

To fall into strife; to quarrel. (Obs.)

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"Mutiny" Quotes from Famous Books

... Waterloo veterans have died out, but Crimea and Indian Mutiny men there are in plenty. At each end of the wings are the staircases, which lead into passage halls. At the extreme end of the eastern wing is the Governor's house, built in exactly the same style as the rest of the wing, and looking like ...

— Chelsea - The Fascination of London • G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

... mutiny! Thou at the least shalt learn the penalty 310 Of treason, though its proxy only. Pania! Let his head be thrown from our walls within The rebels' lines, his carcass down the river. Away with him! [PANIA ...

— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron

... the Trojans, and sent no false Dream of success to Agamemnon. What were the fortunes of that oldest of all old kernels? In this version (A) Agamemnon, having had no Dream, summoned a peaceful assembly to discuss the awkwardness caused by the mutiny of Achilles. The host met (Iliad, II. 87-99). Here we pass from line 99 to 212-242: Thersites it is who opens the debate, (in version A) insults Agamemnon, and advises flight. The army rushed off to launch the ships, as in II. 142-210, and were brought back by Odysseus, ...

— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang

... nothing. As will be shown later, it could secure no treaties of any importance, since its impotence to enforce them was patent. It managed to disband the remaining troops with great difficulty and only under the danger of mutiny, a danger so great that it took all of {135} Washington's personal influence to prevent an uprising at Newburg in March, 1783. For the rest, its leaders, men often of high ability—Hamilton, Madison, King of Massachusetts, Sherman of Connecticut—found ...

— The Wars Between England and America • T. C. Smith

... arms pinioned, unless when two men were standing by him with loaded rifles in their hands. Our journey was therefore a far from pleasant one. Rochford found it very disagreeable; and I felt greatly annoyed at the way he was treated; but as I should have been accused of mutiny had I made any further attempt to get him released, I was obliged, as he was, to submit. He begged me not to ...

— In the Wilds of Florida - A Tale of Warfare and Hunting • W.H.G. Kingston

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