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ravery Obs. exc. dial.|ˈreɪvərɪ|
[? a. OF. raverie, rare var. of rêverie reverie: see rave v.1]
Raging, raving, madness or delirium. Also with a and pl., an instance of this; a fit of raving.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. (E.E.T.S.) 11365 How he sclow In his rauery The douȝti kyng Prothesaly! 1594A. Hume Hymns To Rdr. (S.T.S.) 6 To rehearse some fabulos faits of Palmerine, Amadis, or other such like raueries. 1659Macallo Can. Physick 8 Raving or Ravery designes the braine to be distempered. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 105 If the King have sense enough not to give credit to all their raveries. 1721Wodrow Hist. Suff. Ch. Scot. (1828) III. 348 The raveries and blasphemies emitted by John Gib. 1895E. Anglian Gloss., Ravary, a violent mad fit of passion, attended with loud vociferation. |