verb. (old).—To rise in revolt against one’s betters. Gr., Gigantomachia = the War of the Giants against the Gods. [Probably a coinage of Ben Jonson’s.]
1599. JONSON, Every Man out of his Humour, v. 4. ’Slight! fed with it, the whoreson, strummel-patch’d, goggle-eyed grumbledories, would have GIGANTOMACHISED their Maker.
