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▪ I. † reˈvile, n. Obs.
Also reveile.
[f. the vb.]
1. A reviling speech or remark.
1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 985/2 Hee must heare threates, hee must suffer reuiles and tauntes. 1602W. Bas Sword & Buckler C 3* Whose busie tongues and lothing maw defiles Our honest sort with vomited reuiles. 1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1851 IV. 139 Since he waigh'd so little what a grosse revile that was to give his equall.
2. Revilement, reviling.
a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 444 Their reveile of the worthy servant of God, M. Caluin, we will..lay vp with the Lord. 1650Earl of Monmouth tr. Senault's Man bec. Guilty 316 Recreation..will always be innocent enough, if it can hinder revile and unchastity. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. (1862) 194 Render them not reviling for revile.
▪ II. revile, v.|rɪˈvaɪl|
[a. OF. reviler, f. re- re- + vil vile a. Cf. later F. ravilir, It. ravvilire.]
†1. trans. To degrade, abase. Obs. rare.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 11546 Þou dysonourest hym yn þat outrage, And reuylyst hys feyre ymage. 1390Gower Conf. II. 221 Thou hast bothe hire and me beguiled And ek thin oghne astat reviled.
2. To subject to contumely or abuse; to assail with opprobrious or abusive language.
In early quots. more with reference to action than speech.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11677 Þey..seye hit ys þer heritage To haue oure godes, & vs to reuille! 1390Gower Conf. III. 247 His fader and hise brethren bothe..Him hadde beten and reviled. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VII. 97 Also he revilede moche and detracte seynte Edmunde. c1460Wisdom 989 in Macro Plays 68 By holy chyrch to be reconsylyde, Trustynge verely ye xall neuer be revylyde. 1530Palsgr. 690/1 He is a marvaylouse hastye man in his fume, he revyled me and I had ben a dogge. 1591Spenser M. Hubberd 365 The man..with reproachfull tearmes gan them revile. 1648Wilkins Math. Magic i. xi. 69 He did not revile the gods of ingratitude. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 249 [The Arabs] hate the Persians, they revile every thing that concerns them. 1729Savage Wanderer v. 411 They jar, accus'd accuse, revil'd revile, And wrath to wrath oppose. 1780Cowper Love of World 33 Revil'd and lov'd, renounc'd and follow'd, Thus, bit by bit, the world is swallow'd. 1833H. Martineau Tale of Tyne ii. 40 He reviled heaven and earth when he saw his wife sinking from want. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 185 Ctesippus then says that he is not reviling the two Sophists, he is only contradicting them.
fig.1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, i. i. 126, I read in 's looks Matter against me, and his eye reuil'd Me as his abiect obiect. a1616Beaum. & Fl. Bonduca ii. iv, No ill words! let his own shame first revile him.
3. intr. To use opprobrious language; to rail at a person or thing.
1526Tindale 1 Pet. ii. 23 When he was reviled, reviled not agayne. 1621R. Brathwait Nat. Embassie (1877) 141 This short Satyre..reuiling at the couetousnesse..of women. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 58 It was then, that the doctrine of the Jesuits was carped, and reviled at. 1797M. Robinson Walsingham III. 65 While the tithe-pamper'd churchman reviles at the poor. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. xvii. 165 How scornfully I once reviled, When some poor maiden was beguiled.
Hence reˈviled ppl. a.
1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! vii, The Lord's people were always a reviled people and a persecuted people. |