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movitus, for L.
motus, p. p. of movere to move. See Move.]
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.

Macaulay.

2. Violent commotion; tumult; strife.
[Obs.]

To raise a mutiny betwixt
yourselves.

Shak.

Mutiny act (Law), an English statute
reënacted annually to punish mutiny and desertion.
Wharton.

Syn. -- See Insurrection.

Mu"ti*ny, 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.

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