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▪ I. † reˈveil, v. Obs.
Forms: 5 reuaile, reueyle, 5–6 reueile, 7 reveil.
[var. of reveal v., with the second element assimilated to veil v.]
trans. To reveal, disclose.
1546Supplic. Poore Commons (E.E.T.S.) 69 God shall reuaile vnto your Highnes moch more of theyr subtyll imaginations. 1555Harpsfield in Bonner's Homilies 45 Fleshe and bloude hath not this reueiled and opened vnto the. 1588Greene Pandosto Wks. (Grosart) IV. 281 Feare of his Fathers displeasure [would not let him] reueyle it to any secrete friend. 1652Gataker Antinom. 9 It is plainly..reveiled. Ibid. 36 His old..way of reveiling himself. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §16. 292 This Philosophy of Pythagoras [was] first divinely delivered or reveiled by the gods.
▪ II. reveil, réveil
Variants of next. rare.
Smart and some later Dicts. recognize the pronunciation |rɪˈveɪl| or |rɪˈvɛl| for reveille.
1830J. C. Mangan Poems (1903) 284 The reveil-call which on Fame's deep drum Time's Hands beat for some lost hero of the Past. 1884J. Colborne Hicks Pasha 31 Next morning at five the réveil sounded. |