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reputation to reply to his objections, but upon their being 
repeated with no new arguments, he was suffered to have the 
last word. He had a peculiar system of his own on the 
subject, yet Haller believes that he was really a convert to the 
true system, but could not bear to minister to the glory of 
Harvey. In his own opinion, he was himself the first anato¬ 
mist of the age. His works were replete with erudition, and 
in an eloquent style, though somewhat diffuse. He had a 
contempt for anatomical plates, and never employed them in 
his works. He wrote upon some other medical topics, and 
defended the Hippocratic mode of practice against the 
chemical sect. He also published in French, “ Recherches 
curieuses sur les Ecoles de Paris et de Montpellier,” in which 
he exercised his usual severity against the Montpellier school 
of physic. Ualleri Bibl. Med. 8? Anatom. Eluy Diet. 
Hist. 
RIOLI, a town of Naples, in Capitanata; 11 miles south 
of Manfredonia. 
RIOLO, a town of Italy, in the department of the 
Amone; 9 miles west of Faenza. 
RIOM, a considerable town in the central part of France, 
in the department of the Puy de Dome, situated on a decli¬ 
vity, and enjoying a delightful view of the fertile plain called 
the Limagne d’Auvergne. It contains 13,500 inhabitants, 
and though not the capital of the department, has a cour 
royale, or provincial court of appeal. The town is regularly 
built, being traversed diametrically by two principal streets, 
which cross each other in the central part. These and the 
other streets are all paved with basalt, and the whole town 
is built of this sort of stone, the dark colour of which gives it 
a dull and gloomy appearance. Riom was formerly a place 
of some strength, and has still a small arsenal, but its earthen 
mound is now planted with trees, and serves as a promenade. 
Its chief structures are its theatre and public fountains. Its 
trade is inconsiderable, being confined to a little hardware, 
linen, groceries, and the products of the surrounding country. 
50 miles south-by-west of Moulins. Lat. 45. 51. 30. N. 
long. 3. 6. 5. E. 
RION, a small island of the north-west coast of France, 
department of the Cotes du Nord. 
RIONDO, in Ichthology, a name used by some for the 
fish more commonly called aper, a small fish, of the shape 
of the taber or doree, caught in the Mediterranean. 
RIONERO, a town of Italy, in the north part of the king¬ 
dom of Naples, province of Molise. Population 1400. 
RIONS, a town in the south-west of France, department 
of the Gironde. Population 1500; 17 miles south-east of 
Bourdeaux. 
RIOPAR, a town of the interior of Spain, in the province 
of La Mancha, among the mountains of Alcaraz. In the 
neighbourhood are very rich mines of calamine, not far from 
the source of the Mundo. Population 4600; 17 miles south- 
by-west of Alcaraz. 
RI'OT, s. [riote , Fr. Dr. Johnson.—Serenius deduces 
the word from the Goth, hriota, subsultare, Sueth. ruta, 
grassari, dissolute vivere; Callander, from the Goth, ret a, 
Icel. reita, adiram excitare.] Wild and loose festivity. 
When his headstrong riot hath no curb, 
When rage and hot blood are his counsellors, 
When means and lavish manners meet together, 
Oh! with what wings shall his affection fly 
Toward fronting peril and oppos’d decay. Shakspeare. 
A sedition ; an uproar. 
Transform’d to serpents all, as accessories 
To his bold riot. Milton. 
The punishment of riots and routs, where a number of 
persons from three to eleven are concerned, is, by the com¬ 
mon law, fine and imprisonment only; to which, in very 
enormous cases, the pillory has been sometimes superadded. 
(1 Hawk. P. C. 159.) And by the stat. 13 Hen. IV. c. 7. 
any two justices, together with the sheriff or under-sheriff 
of the county, may come with the posse comitatus, if need 
be, and suppress any such riot, assembly, or rout, arrest 
R I O 
the rioters, and record upon the spot the nature and cir¬ 
cumstances of the whole transaction; which record alone 
shall be a sufficient conviction of the offenders: and it is 
held that any battery, wounding, or killing the rioters, 
that may happen in suppressing the riot, is justifiable. The 
riotous assembling of twelve persons or more, and not dis¬ 
persing upon proclamation, was first made high treason 
by stat. 3 and 4 Edward VI. c. 5. 'but repealed by stat. 
1 Mary, c. 1. Nevertheless, the offence was made a 
single felony by 1 Mar. stat. 2. c. 12. and by 1 Eliz. 
c. 16. with whom the law expired. However, it was re¬ 
vived, in order to support the execution of the act of settle¬ 
ment, and made perpetual by 1 Geo. I. c. 5. which enacts, 
that if any twelve persons are unlawfully assembled to the 
disturbance of the peace, and any one justice of the peace, 
sheriff, under-sheriff, or mayor of a town, shall think 
proper to command them by proclamation to disperse, if 
they contemn his orders, and continue together for one hour 
afterwards, such contempt shall be felony, without benefit 
of clergy. And farther, if the reading of the proclama¬ 
tion be by force opposed, or in any manner wilfully 
hindered, such opposers and hinderers are felons, without 
benefit of clergy; and all persons concerned, knowing of 
such hindrance, and not dispersing, are felons, without 
benefit of clergy. And the act indemnifies the peace 
officers, and their assistants, if they kill any of the mob in 
endeavouring to disperse them. Moreover, if any persons, 
so riotously assembled, begin, even before proclamation, 
to pull down any church, chapel, meeting-house, dwelling- 
house, or out-houses, they shall be felons, without benefit 
of clergy. B/ackst. Comm, book iv. ch. xi. 
To run RIOT. To move or act without control or 
restraint.—One man’s head runs riot upon hawks and dice. 
L' Estrange. 
You never can defend his breeding. 
Who, in his satire’s running riot , 
Could never leave the world in quiet. Swift. 
To RIOT, v. n. [ rioter , old Fr.] To revel; to be dis¬ 
sipated in luxurious enjoyments.—Let us walk honestly as 
in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness. Rom. xiii. 13. 
Now he exacts of all, wastes in delight. 
Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law. Daniel. 
To luxuriate; to be tumultuous. 
Thy life a long dead calm of fix’d repose; 
No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. Pope. 
To banquet luxuriously.—To raise a sedition or uproar. 
RI'OTER, s. One who is dissipated in luxury.—Even the 
rioters of the world have stings and torments from it: If a 
man live in sensuality and fulness of pleasure, what a cutting 
thought it is to consider, that in a little time he must bid 
adieu to this and to all felicity for ever! Glanville. —Gne 
who raises an uproar or sedition.—Any two justices may 
come with the posse comitatus, if need be, and suppress 
any such riot, assembly, or rout, and arrest the rioters .- 
Blackstone. 
RI'OTISE, s. Dissoluteness; luxury. Obsolete. 
From every work he challenged essoign 
For contemplation sake; yet otherwise 
His life he led in lawless riotise. Spenser. 
RI'OTOUS, adj. [rioteux , Fr.] Luxurious; wanton; 
licentiously festive. 
When all our offices have been opprest 
With riotous feeders, 
I have retir’d me to a wasteful cock, 
And set mine eyes at flow. Shakspeare. 
With them no riotous pomp nor Asian train, 
T’ infect a navy with their gaudy fears; 
But war severely like itself appears. Dry den. 
Seditious ; turbulent.—The riotous assembling of twelve 
persons, or more, and not dispersing upon proclamation, 
was first made high treason by statute. Blackstone. 
RI'OTOUSLY, 
