Roystered vs Roysterer - What's the difference?
roystered | roysterer |
(royster)
* 1819 , Rip Van Winkle , The Sketch Book (Washington Irving)
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.'
As a verb roystered
is past tense of royster.As a noun roysterer is
{{cx|obsolete|lang=en}} Someone who revels, a partier.roystered
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(en verb)- He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick on him