mutinous

English

mutinous (comparative more mutinous, superlative most mutinous)

Likely to commit mutiny.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: Printed [by Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], OCLC 932932554, folio 11, recto:
  [A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churlish[,] thwart, and mutinous; [...]
Of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny.

of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny

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