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▪ I. revel, n.1|ˈrɛvəl|
Forms: 4–7 reuel (4 -ele, 5 -eyl, 6 -il), 5–7 reuell (5 -elle, -yll), revell(e, 6 -yll, ravelle), 4– revel.
[a. OF. revel (reviel, rivel, etc.), verbal n. f. reveler: see revel v.1 The development of sense in OF. is ‘rebellion, tumult, disturbance, noisy mirth’.]
1. Riotous or noisy mirth or merry-making.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 538 He made a fare on þat fest..With much reuel & ryche of þe rounde table. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 273 Þis..Assuerus..made greet revel and feste to his princes. c1425Thomas of Erceld. 268 Reuelle amanges þame was full ryfe... There was revelle, gamene, and playe. c1450Merlin 448 Ladyes and maydenes carolinge and daunsinge, and the moste reuell and disport that myght be made. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 156 Eate we and drinke we..With reuell without measure as long as we may. 1541R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. iii. i. 127 b, Whan we couple..vnto sober vertue, reuell and dronkennes. 1621S. Ward Happiness of Practice (1627) 44 Lest if wee play reuell and ryot by it, the Candlesticke be remoued, and the light put out. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. ii, He was..Sore given to revel and ungodly glee. 1855Tennyson Maud i. xxii. v, The brief night goes In babble and revel and wine. 1887Hall Caine Son Hagar ii. xvi, That night there was high revel at the Ghyll.
2. An occasion or course of merry-making or noisy festivity, with dancing, games, masking, acting, or other forms of lively entertainment.
c1350Will. Palerne 1953 And alle merþe þat any man euer miȝt deuise; and alle real reueles. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 442 For-thi I rede ȝou riche reueles whan ȝe maketh For to solace ȝoure soules suche ministrales to haue. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour k vj b, In those dayes..were holden grete festes and reueyls. 1540J. Heywood Four P.P. D j, Now marke for here beginneth the reuel. 1572in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 179 [Two] men going to the Coorte to sett up frames for the seide Revells. 1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 21 These vnrulye reuels,..thee sea king Neptun awaked. 1633Ford Broken H. iv. iii, A wedding without revels is not seemly. 1667Milton P.L. i. 782 Faerie Elves, Whose midnight Revels..some belated Peasant sees. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. v. 46 Daphnis did rites to Bacchus first ordain; And holy Revels for his reeling Train. 1725Pope Odyss. xii. 4 Here the gay Morn..keeps her revels with the dancing Hours. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 208 Life was to her a perpetual revel; it was one long lord mayor's day. 1846Keble Lyra Innoc. (1873) 69 Making thy rites a revel and a show. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. xxi. 187 Wilt thou, to introduce us to the revel, Assume the part of wizard or of devil?
transf.1892Daily News 30 April 2/2 It is indeed a revel of colour, almost daring in its richness and brilliancy.
b. spec. A parish festival or feast; a fair.
App. limited to the south-western counties.
1478Church-w. Accts., Croscombe (Somerset Rec. Soc.) 7 Of the Kyng's revell of thes yere past xiiis. jd. wherof was stole away ijs. vijd. 1504–5Ibid. 27 Presentyd in of the King revyll. c1550Disc. Com.-weal Eng. (1893) 16 Enterludes, maye games, wakes, ravelles, wagers at shooting. 1613–16[see 4]. 1756Gentl. Mag. XXVI. 433 Neither trade, nor agriculture, nor religion would sustain any loss, by thus employing..three [days] more at every parish-wake, feast, or revel. 1806Bowles Banwell Hill iii. 276 William passed along, And careless hummed a desultory song, Bound to St. Ives' revel. 1899Baring-Gould Vicar of Morwenstow vii, It was on the parish feast-day or ‘revel’ as the inhabitants of the parish called it.
c. Master of the Revels, a person (permanently or temporarily) appointed to organize or lead revels, esp. in the Royal Household or the Inns of Court. Also the Revels, a former office in the Royal Household; Children of the Revels (quot. 1664). Now only Hist.
1530Palsgr. 243/2 Mayster of the revelles, factevr. 1558in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 5 The Revelles togethers with the Tentes and Toylles was made an office. 1664R. Flecknoe Love's Kingd., Eng. Stage G v, The Theatre..of the Children of the Chappel [was] converted to the use of the Children of the Revels. 1677Lond. Gaz. No. 1170/4 Charles Killegrew Esq.; now Master of the Revels. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Master of the Revels,..who in the Inns of Court is some young Student chosen for that Purpose. 1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v., The officer who has the direction..of the revels at court, is called the master of the revels. 1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall xxvi. 227 Slingsby,..who is not merely lord of misrule in his school, but master of the revels to the village. 1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 429/2 In the royal household..the master of the revels was a permanent officer. 1880Encycl. Brit. XIII. 89/1 A master of the revels was appointed, commonly designated Lord of Misrule.
†3. Riot, disturbance. Obs. rare.
1461Paston Lett. II. 50 Ther is gret noyse of this revell that was don in Suffolk be Yelverton and Jeney. 1465Ibid. 201 Ric. Calle hath told you what revell ther was by the Bayllyf of Coshay and his felaw uppon your men that shold have servyd the replevyn.
4. attrib., as revel-coil, revel-cup, revel dash, revel day, revel-gaiety, revel master, revel night, revel rex, revel-shout. Also revel-rout.
1630J. Taylor (Water-P.) Wks. (Nares), To dance, sing, sport, and to keepe *revell-coyles. 1653G. Webbe Pract. Quiet. 210 He maketh all unquiet persons to keep revell quoile, like the two Gergasens.
1873Symonds Gk. Poets xi. 350 Withered crowns and *revel-cups are laid upon the shrine of Lais.
c1590Greene Fr. Bacon vii, Out with your blades,..Have a flurt and a crash, now play *reuell dash.
1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. i. ii, Those buskins hee had got..For dancing best vpon the *Reuell day.
1712Steele Spect. No. 358 ⁋2 The best Man that I know of for heightening the *Revel-Gayety of a Company.
1839Penny Cycl. XIV. 151/1 This Lord of Misrule, or *revel-master, was sometimes termed a Christmas prince.
1828Scott F.M. Perth xvi, ‘I have sworn,’ said Henry, ‘that this shall be no *revel night in my house.’
1566J. Studley Agamemnon v. i, Within a *reuell rexe is kept, as sore as euer was. 1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 89 A Nation and people whose fashion and ordinary custome was to keepe revell rex.
1813Scott Trierm. i. xvii, With *revel-shout, and triumph-song.
¶ In the following quotation reuell is an error for releve = Fr. relevée ‘rising up’.
a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 109 Atte the day of her Reuell and purificacion, that she shulde be cherisshed, she lete it be do simply withoute gret noye.
▪ II. † ˈrevel, n.2 Sc. Obs. rare.
[Of obscure origin.]
‘A severe blow; often applied to a back stroke’ (Jam.).
1603Philotus cxxxiv, With my Neiues I sall the nauell; Auld custrone Carle, tak thair a reuell, Than do as I command.
▪ III. revel
variant of reveal n.2
▪ IV. revel, v.1|ˈrɛvəl|
Forms: 4–6 reuel(e, 5–7 reuell(e; 4 revelen, 5–7 revell(e, 5– revel.
[a. OF. reveler to rebel, raise tumult, make noise, etc.:—L. rebellāre to rebel.]
1. intr. To make merry; to indulge in pastime or festivities; to take part in a revel.
c1325Song of Yesterday in E.E.P. (1862) 133 Þis day as leef we may be liht..To Reuele with þise buyrdes briht. 1390Gower Conf. II. 93 Whan that he seth the lusti knyhtes Revelen, wher these wommen are. c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 2396 He kan..Maisterly revel and Daunce, Pipe and floyte lustely. c1475Sqr. lowe Degre 1078 In chambre revelyng all the lordes, Unto morne that it was daye. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 84 b, These lusty maskers..daunced and reuelled..at the Emperors request. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 12 The hall was full of all sorts of people revelling, playing, and occupyed in pastime. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. ii. ii. 116 See, Antony that Reuels long a-nights Is notwithstanding vp. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 765 Here Love his golden shafts imploies,..Reigns here and revels. 1719Young Revenge iv. i, It will cut my poor heart thro' and thro' To see those revel on your sacred tomb. 1763J. Brown Poetry & Mus. 193 The Patrician Ladies, who lately had reveled amidst the Spoils of a subjected World, now begged before their own Doors. 1836W. Irving Astoria II. 111 Here, then, they revelled and reposed after their hungry and weary travel. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xii. III. 233 It was suspected that Walker had laid up..a secret store of food, and was revelling in private.
fig.1648J. Beaumont Psyche iv. cxcii, Loud rung the Ruin, and with boistrous fear Strait revel'd in the Queen's amazed ear. 1699Pomfret Love triumphant over Reason, No strong passion revels in my breast. 1787Burns Tam Samson's Elegy iii, By their nose the tears will revel, Like ony bead.
b. So to revel it. Now arch.
15802nd & 3rd Blast of Retrait from Plaies in Hazl. Eng. Drama (1869) 119 The people disperse them selues in Theaters, the whole multitude reuel it out at stages. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon v, Go revel it, Till I and Friar Bacon talk awhile. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 435 Thus they revell it all night, till morning. 1679Obs. on Dutch Wars 14 A parcel of Brewers, Draymen, and Coblers revell'd it upon the sweat of our Brows. 1772B'ham Counterfeit I. 177 The husband may revel it with his mistress, and the wife with her gallant. 1822Scott Nigel xxxvi, Thou must needs leave duty, and decency,..to revel it gaily with the wild and with the wicked.
c. To enjoy oneself greatly, to take intense pleasure or delight, in something.
1754Gray Poesy 80 Alike..the pomp of tyrant Pow'r, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xix. (1819) 307 Maggots revel in putrefaction. 1821Byron Sardan. ii. i, To the delighted west, which revels in Its hues of dying glory. 1884J. Gilmour Mongols 139 The government in carrying out the extreme penalty of the law..deliberately revels in ingenious cruelty.
2. trans.
a. To spend or waste (time) in revelry.
1628Ford Lover's Mel. iv. iii, An age of pleasures, revell'd out, comes home At last, and ends in sorrow. 1691Dryden King Arthur iv. i, The ringlets round her trunk declare her guilty Of many midnight-sabbaths revelled here.
b. To squander (money) in revelling.
1813Scott Rokeby i. xvii, If gold he gave, in one wild day I revell'd thrice the sum away.
†3. To drive out by revelling. Obs.
a1652Brome Queenes Exch. ii. i, Let work no more be thought on, We will revel it out Of remembrance.
▪ V. † reˈvel, v.2 Obs.
Also 7 revell, reuell.
[ad. L. revell-ĕre, f. re- re- + vellĕre to pull.]
1. trans. To draw back (humours or blood) from some part of the system.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 43/2 It then revelleth and drawethe backe agayne those humors which concurre towardes the Eyes. 1651Biggs New Disp. 169 ⁋232 Unlesse the confluent bloud, avelling the pleura,..be revelled by a large effusion of bloud. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compil. xix. 699 There is more of vicious Humours than can be revelled by the Bath toward the Skin. 1752Dale tr. Freind's Emmenologia xi. 121 By opening a vein in the arm, since some part is revelled upwards, the Uterine passages are indeed freed from Pressure.
absol.1610P. Barrough Meth. Physick v. ix. (1639) 284 In all members of the body, whether you intend to revell, that is, to draw back againe another way [etc.]. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compil. xix. 809 We must revel, if the humours run whither they should not.
2. To pull out (a weapon) from a wound.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. xiii. (1626) 265 His brest..The deadly sword, where it could enter, bor'd. Nor could his strength the fixed steele reuell.
Hence † reˈvelling ppl. a.
1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compil. xi. 379 Vomitories are very profitable, as being a greatly revelling medicine.
▪ VI. revel
variant of rivel v., to wrinkle, etc. |