Mutiny /(?)/

Mu·ti·ny

Mutiny

n.

pl. Mutinies

  1. 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.
  2. Violent commotion; tumult; strife. [Obs.]
    To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves.

Phrases & Compounds
Mutiny act
an English statute reenacted annually to punish mutiny and desertion.

Mutiny

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Mutinied; p. pr. & vb. n. Mutinying

  1. 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.
  2. To fall into strife; to quarrel. [Obs.]