1883, Charles Annandale, The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete Encyclopedic Lexicon, Literary, Scientific, and Technological, page 722:
'A routish assembly of sorry citizens.' Roger North.
1194 January 6, MS. Bodley 672:
As Coblers, ffidlers, merry Companions, Whores, & such routish Company, & marched speedily with that his promiscuous Army consistinge both of men & weomen towards the said Castle where the Earle was beseiged: The Welsh seeinge A great multitude comming, left the seige &; fledd.
1906, American Philosophical Society, The Record of the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin: Under the Auspices of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, April the Seventeenth to April the Twentieth, A.D. Nineteen Hundred and Six, page 27:
Lord Shelburne's interest in Franklin; on his being appointed Lord of Trade, desired any information Franklin could impart, relative to the public good of his Province; since then a turbulent routish faction occasioned his[…]
2014 September 9, Karen Miller, The Falcon Throne, Orbit, →ISBN:
"You go if you must, if you can't bring yourself to deny Terriel his routish pleasures.
