a. Obs. rare. Also 6 tourbulus. [f. L. turbul-entus TURBULENT + -OUS: cf. OF. torbleus TROUBLOUS.] = TURBULENT, TROUBLOUS 2.
1527. Hacket, Lett. to Wolsey (MS. Cott. Galba B. xiv. 91). That [we] may cheyse the best for owr own parte and for t[he] welt and comodyte of all the tourbulus Cristynd[om].
1579. J. Stubbes, in Harington’s Nugæ Ant. (1804), I. 151. A miserable turbulous wretch, seekinge to interrupt her peace.
1676. W. Row, Contn. Blair’s Autobiog., xii. (1848), 582. Turbulous and seditious.
