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rake-hell, n. Now arch.|ˈreɪkhɛl|
Also 6 rack-. See also rakel.
[See rake v.1 6 c.]
1. A thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake. (In common use c 1550–1725.)
1554Bale Declaration (1561) Pref. A j b, After the mischeuous example of Cain, and the other rake hels. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 315 Momish Monckes, flatteryng Fryers, and others such lyke Religious Rackhells. 1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 87 Al the rake-hels and loose vagabonds in a countrey. 1690J. Mackenzie Siege London-Derry 2/1 These Rake-hells (who were the very scum of the Countrey). 1766Anstey New Bath Guide (1776) 131 Brother Simkin's grown a rakehell, Cards and dances ev'ry day. 1870Thornbury Tour Eng. I. ii. 43 The wild son of a baronet, a rake-hell who had been brought up at Eton.
†b. Applied to a place. Obs. rare—1.
1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 17 b, Rome..is the most filthy sinke of al the places in the Uniuersall worlde, and a rakehell heaped of all mischief [L. inexhausta colluvies].
2. attrib. or as adj. = rakehelly 1.
1556Olde Antichrist 186 Most filthie rakehell masse priestes. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. xi. 44 Amid their rakehell bands, They spide a Lady. 1682Sec. Plea Nonconf. 28 A reviling sort of Rake-hell Scriblers. 1782Cowper Progr. Err. 314 Some lewd earl, or rakehell baronet.
transf.1895Crockett Cleg Kelly xvi, [A] rake-hell cat skirmishing across from area-railing to area-railing.
†b. of things. = rakehelly 2. Obs. rare.
a1547Surrey in Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 11 The rakehell lyfe that longes to loues disporte. 1589Pappe w. Hatchet B ij, If Martin haue not barrelde vp all rakehell words.
Hence ˈrakeˌhellish a. = rakehelly; † rakeheˈllonian, one of the ‘sect’ of rakehells.
a1704T. Brown Wks. (1730) II. 313, I have been..admitted into the family of the rakehellonians. 1824New Monthly Mag. XI. 240 Not to be in bed before midnight was..esteemed a rakehellish practice. |