turmoil (termoil)

[Formerly also turmoyle; There I'll rest, as after much turmoil A ble ed soul doth in Elysium. Here is a boy that loves to run, swim, kick football, turn somersets. O. W. Holmes, Profe or, viii. 6. To revolve in the mind; regard from different points of view; consider and reconsider; ponder. Turn these ideas about in your mind, and take a view of them on all sides. Watts. 7. To go, pa , or move round; go or get round or to the other side of: as, to turn the stake boat in a race. My tutor appears so able that.. it must be my own fault if I am not a complete rogue before I turn the corner. Sheridan, School for Scandal, iii. 1. 8. To change the course or direction of; cause to move, tend, or be aimed or pointed in an opposite or different direction, or toward a different object, purpose, or the like; divert from one way, course, or channel into another. He'll turn your current in a ditch. Shak., Cor., iii. 1. 96. He had very much turned his studies into the lives of Don Bell i an is of Greece, Guy of Warwick, "the Seven Champions," and other historians of that age. Steele, Tatler, No. 95. The king now turned his thoughts upon a nobler object. Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 72. The king, who would never have made such a devise in his better days, was more easily turned from his purpose now than he would once have been. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 24. Hence-( a ) To head off: as, to turn a runaway horse. Shak ., T. G. of V., ii. 7. 37. (b) To reverse; repeal. God will turn thy captivity, and have compa ion upon Deut. xxx. 3. It is not in thy power to turn this destiny. =Syn. Confusion, bustle, uproar. turmoil oust, a. [Early mod. E. termoylous ; Saynet Augustyne.. was surelye an excellente man, of dyuyne witte, and knowledge, and so trauayled in set tynge foorth Christes true Relygion in those termoylous dayes...that he is worthelye called a Doctour and Pyller of Christes Churche. R. Eden, First Books on America (ed. Arber), p. 10.