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reveln.1 Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French revel. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French revel noisy merriment, revelry (second half of the 12th cent. in Old French), rebellion, revolt (second half of the 12th cent.), uproar, tumult (late 12th cent.) < reveler revel v.1 Compare Old Occitan revel , revelh (second half of the 12th cent.), also ( < English) post-classical Latin reveli , plural (1545, 1551 in British sources). Compare revel v.1The β. forms show devoicing of the medial consonant. Attested earlier in surnames, as Willielmus Revell (1201), Maud Revel (1246), etc., although these more probably reflect the Anglo-Norman word. With Master of (the) Revels n. at sense 1b compare post-classical Latin magister revelorum (16th cent. or earlier). I. An entertainment or festivity and related senses. 1. Frequently in plural. historical and archaic in later use. society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > [noun] > noisy or riotous a1375 (c1350) (1867) 1953 (MED) Alle real reueles rinkes rif bigunne. c1440 (Thornton) (1913) 110 (MED) Alexander gart ordeyne a grete reuelle in Babyloyne. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry (1971) cxvi. 154 In tho dayes..were holden grete festes and reueyls. ?1544 J. Heywood sig. D.i Now marke for here begynneth the reuell. 1572 in A. Feuillerat (1908) 179 [Two] men going to the Coorte to sett up frames for the seide Revells. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil i. 4 Theese vnrulye reuels,..thee sea king Neptun awaked. 1633 J. Ford iv. i. sig. H4v A wedding without Reuels is not seemely. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals v, in tr. Virgil 22 Daphnis did rites to Bacchus first ordain; And holy Revels for his reeling Train. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer III. xii. 4 Here the gay Morn..keeps her revels with the dancing Hours. 1753 E. F. Haywood II. ix. 95 The wedding is over,—I wish to heaven that the revels for it were so too, that I might be at liberty to get away. 1820 W. Irving I. 208 Life was to her a perpetual revel; it was one long lord mayor's day. 1846 J. Keble 118 Making Thy rites a revel and a show. 1892 30 Apr. 2/2 It is indeed a revel of colour, almost daring in its richness and brilliancy. 1949 H. Robbins (1981) iii. 423 He had rather expected it to be a gay bacchanalian revel, complete with houris and dancing girls. 1980 P. le Huray in R. B. Waddington & C. A. Patrides viii. 261 After the entry dance..the masquers invite the audience to join in the revels or social dances. 1994 R. Hutton (2005) iii. 101 Christmas ‘lords’ and ‘kings’ continued to preside over the revels of Oxford colleges and reappeared at Cambridge. 2001 (Nexis) 13 Dec. ‘It's solemn and mysterious,’ says Chris Kermiet, one of the organizers of the annual winter-solstice revels..which marks its sixteenth anniversary on December 15. society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > persons and characters > [noun] > presiding 1510 R. Gibson (P.R.O.: E36/217) f. 24 Thes garmenttes and all abyllymenttes dellyuerd to the erll of essex & master harry wentworth then master of the Revylles. 1530 J. Palsgrave 243/2 Mayster of the revelles, factevr. 1652 R. Brathwait (rev. ed.) 106 Edward the sixt..appointed one who was a witty Courtier to be (as it were) the chiefe master or disposer of the Playes..; which Office to this day reteines the name of the Master of the Revels. 1706 (new ed.) Master of the Revels,..who in the Inns of Court is some young Student chosen for that Purpose. 1728 E. Chambers at Revels The Officer who has the Direction or ordering hereof, was called the Master of the Revels. 1822 W. Irving xxvi. 227 Slingsby,..who is not merely lord of misrule in his school, but master of the revels to the village. 1841 XIX. 429/2 In the royal household..the master of the revels was a permanent officer. 1908 H. H. Peerless Diary 16 June in (2003) 124 Dr Duncan who is elected Master of the Revels suggests ninepins first. 1990 41 161 In the seventeenth century the Master of the Revels..held a very limited authority in the provision of court entertainments. society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] > one who furnishes amusement > former office in the Royal Household 1551 in A. Feuillerat (1914) 56 Olde stuf remayning in yo[u]r custodie w[ith]in yo[ur] office of the Revell [es] . 1559 in A. Feuillerat (1908) 98 Willm Madderson for vj hedpeces..by him made and delyu[er]ed into the Revells. 1573 in A. Feuillerat (1908) 5 The Revelles togethers with the Tentes and Toylles was made an office. 1612 T. Heywood sig. E1 The office of the Reuels, where our Court playes haue beene in late daies yearely rehersed..before they come to the publike view of the Prince and the Nobility. 1797 G. Chalmers p. iv The stamp in the Title-page shows to the curious eye the arms of the Revels; and, the Tail-piece exhibits to the inquisitive dramatist the seal of the office of the Revels, during the reigns of five sovereigns. 1830 Pref. Remarks to Seven Champions of Christendom 2 in III. The play of The Seven Champions of Christendom, was probably produced in 1684, though the Revels' Office book affords not information on that head. 1884 Mar. 345/1 After the death of Sir Thomas Cawarden, which occurred in 1560, the office of the Revels was removed from Blackfriars to the suppressed hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, near Smithfield. 1910 J. T. Tucker I. iv. i. 329 Among the Revels payments for 1572-3 is the following, [etc.]. 1953 4 359 We are told that an Elizabethan playwright's foul sheets might be licensed by the Revels Office and then used as the official prompt book by a company of players. 2004 54 674 In 1571 Thomas Gylles..complained that the revels officers..were renting revels costumes and masquing garments. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > company of actors > specific company 1604 in (1909) I. 267 To provide keepe and bring vppe a convenient nomber of Children and them to practize and exercise in the quality of playinge by the name of Children of the Revells to the Queene within the Blackfryers in our Cytie of london. 1606 J. Day (title) The ile of guls. As it hath been often playd in the blacke Fryars, by the Children of the Reuels. 1664 R. Flecknoe Short Disc. Eng. Stage in sig. G5 People growing more precise, and Playes more licentious, the Theatre of Pauls was quite supprest, and that of the Children of the Chappel, converted to the use of the Children of the Revels. 1759 T. Wilkes iii. vi. 209 Mr. Richard Edwards was proprietor of the first company, under Queen Elizabeth, called the children of the chapel. The children of the Revels after them became very famous; and most of Shakepear's and Jonson's Plays were first performed by them. 1855 J. Timbs 166 In 1583, the Children of the Chapel Royal, afterwards called the Children of the Revels, were formed into a company of players, and thus were among the earliest performers of the regular drama. 1999 T. B. Leinwand (2004) iv. 135 Having been caught up in the nasty business of the abduction of a young boy into the Children of the Revels, he [sc. Henry Evans] was under Star Chamber prohibition from managing either the theatre or the children's company. society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > annual parish festival 1478 in E. Hobhouse (1890) 7 Of the Kyng's revell of thes yere past xiiis. jd. wherof was stole away ijs. vijd. 1504–5 in E. Hobhouse (1890) 27 Presentyd in of the King revyll. c1550 (1893) 16 Enterludes, maye games, wakes, ravelles, wagers at shooting. 1660 T. Hall 13 Christmas revels, with dancing, drinking,..potting, piping, gaming. 1738 J. Hildrop (new ed.) 26 The Little Vulgar are too apt to mingle with the Great: as at Horse-Races, Bull-Baitings, Country Fairs, Wakes, Feasts, and Revels. 1756 26 433 Neither trade, nor agriculture, nor religion would sustain any loss, by thus employing..three [days] more at every parish-wake, feast, or revel. 1806 W. L. Bowles iii. 276 William passed along, And careless hummed a desultory song, Bound to St. Ives' revel. 1876 S. Baring-Gould (ed. 3) vii. 186 It was on the parish feast-day or ‘revel’ as the inhabitants of the parish called it. 1936 15 May 20/1 (heading) May Revels on a Bedfordshire Village Green. 1954 D. G. Spicer 249 Many country people..still celebrate their fairs, revels and village wakes on the same Old Style dates as their ancestors. 1994 R. Hutton vii. 243 What of the classic expression of village communal solidarity, the parish feast, whether incarnated as an ale, a rush-bearing, a wake, or a revel? 2008 (Nexis) 30 June 28 It's not known when it started to be styled as the revel, but it seems that..there's been some form of jollification or feast in this South Gloucestershire village every summer since that first fair [in 1284]. II. The action of revelling and related senses. society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun] > noisy or riotous c1400 (?c1390) (1940) 40 (MED) Þis kyng lay at Camylot..With mony luflych lorde..With rych reuel oryȝt & rechles merþes. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1857 This noble duc..made reuel al the longe nyght Vn to the straunge lordes. c1440 (Thornton) (1875) 268 (MED) Reuelle amanges þame was full ryfe. Knyghtis dawnsede..There was revelle, gamene, and playe. a1500 (?c1450) 448 (MED) Thei..fonde ladyes and maydenes carolinge and daunsinge, and the moste reuell and disport that myght be made. 1509 A. Barclay (Pynson) f. clxvi Ete we and drynke we..With reuyll without mesure as longe as we may. ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives iii. i. sig. p.iiij Whanne we couple..vnto sobre vertue, reuell and dronkenes. 1621 S. Ward 42 But if God hath giuen vs the Truth, and the light, let vs walke in it, and worke by it, while it is to Day; lest if wee play Reuell and ryot, by it the Candlesticke bee remoued, and the light put out. 1695 N. Tate 15 No more that Festival shall entertain The Court with Revel or harmonious Strain. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer IV. xv. 557 From noiseful revel far remote she flies. 1777 W. Preston 8 Tipsey revel hears the midnight bell. 1812 Ld. Byron i. ii. 4 He was..Sore given to revel and ungodly glee. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxi. v, in 69 The brief night goes In babble and revel and wine. 1887 H. Caine II. xvi. 101 That night there was high revel at the Ghyll. 1905 P. W. Joyce iv. 32 As soon as he stood up, these rough men ceased their noisy revels, and listened with rapt delight to some tale of the heroes of old. 1989 D. Leavitt 22 They could hear the occasional loud revels of drunken football players on their way home from parties. society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] 1462 J. Gloys in (2004) II. 250 Þer is gret noyse of this revell þat was don in Suffolk be Yeluerton and Jeney. 1465 M. Paston in (2004) I. 306 I suppose that Richard Calle hath told you what revell ther was by the bayllyf of Coshay and hys felaw vppon youre men. a1904 C. C. Robinson in (1904) V. 93/1 Revel, a stir, a commotion. Compounds C1. 1851 G. Massey 18 Wolves may eat their hearts, and brim with blood, Wrong's revel-cup. 1873 J. A. Symonds xi. 350 Withered crowns and revel-cups are laid upon the shrine of Lais. 1889 W. Sharp 81 He lifts the revel-cup at night. 1613 W. Browne I. ii. 33 Those buskins hee had got..For dancing best vpon the Reuell day. 1797 J. Cornish iii. 58 A minister who preached twice on one of those revel days, was called to account, because his preaching was a hindrance to the revel. 1887 Apr. 451 On Revel day horse-races were run..for a plated mug or a punch ladle. 1981 31 91 On the revel day at Kingweston in 1653 two blacksmiths started a fight by trying to make a trooper drink the Queen's health. 1712 R. Steele No. 358. ⁋2 The best Man that I know of for heightening the Revel-Gayety of a Company. 1618 D. Belchier sig. H1v Th'ancient Seniors, dancing in a ring, Their stately measures, hand in hand by two And two; vpon their solemne reuell nights. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in 2nd Ser. II. 131 ‘I have sworn,’ said Henry, ‘that this shall be no revel night in this house.’ 1976 8 June 8/5 White hats falling off all around the field like Dunmow maids on a revel night. 1813 W. Scott i. xvii. 41 With revel-shout, and triumph-song. 1991 H. J. Rose tr. Ovid in vi. 153 Invisible devotees of the god made wild music and raised their revel-shout. C2. c1565 ‘T. C.’ tr. G. Boccaccio sig. C.viiiv But Tables headlong downe they hurle, and rush with reuell coyle: And take their Ladies, eche his owne, deuidyng so the spoyle. 1617 G. Webbe (ed. 2) xxi. 315 He maketh all vnquiet persons to keepe reuell quoile, like the two Gergasens. 1630 J. Taylor Eighth Wonder of World in 67 To dance, sing, sport, and to keepe reuell coyles. 1560 sig. C.ivv And thou shalt se me bounce aboue the grou[n]de Hey with reuell dashe. a1592 R. Greene (1594) sig. D4 Out with your blades,..Haue a flurt and a crash, now play reuell dash. 1655–8 T. Hill (single sheet) And all good fellows that flash and swash, In reds and yellows of revell dash, I warrant you need not be so rash. 1904 May 446 She sprang with a revel-dash upon me, rung my hand and kissed me quick. society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > persons and characters > [noun] > presiding 1651 J. Harington i. 32 Cheife Revell-master: holds her train How sprightly, wants she ought; does strain. 1778 T. Warton II. xvi. 405 At Christmas, or any other festival, a Christmas-prince, or revel-master, was constantly appointed. 1839 XIV. 151/1 This Lord of Misrule, or revel-master, was sometimes termed a Christmas prince. 1992 C. Whitman tr. Horace in L. Edmunds p. xvii Good revel master, pour the four year Vintage out with freer hand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † reveln.2Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: revel n.1 Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a specific semantic development of revel n.1 (compare revel n.1 II.). Scottish. Obsolete. the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > a severe blow 1603 cxxxiv. sig. E4 With my Neiues I sall the nauell, Auld custrone Carle tak thair a reuell, Than do as I command. 1825 J. Jamieson Suppl. Revel, a severe blow; often applied to a back stroke, Ang., Loth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020). revelv.1 Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French reveler. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French reveler (in Anglo-Norman also revelir , with change of conjugation) to make merry, to engage in wild or noisy recreation or festivities (late 12th cent. in Old French; c1100 in ‘to rebel, revolt’) < classical Latin rebellāre rebel v., with popular phonological development (showing spirantization of intervocalic -b- ), and hence a doublet of Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French rebeller rebel v. Compare revel n.1The β. forms show devoicing of the medial consonant. It is unclear whether the following Older Scots quot. shows the present word or an instance of ravel v.1 in the sense ‘to entangle, confuse’:a1625 (a1598) A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Harl.) in Poems (1910) 169 But ay [they] remaniest reid-woode, and raveild in ther reilles. Compare the variant reading in MS. Tullibardine:a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Tullibardine) in Poems (2000) I. 154 Sick ane mirthles music thes menstrallis did mak That cattell..ran reid wood and raveld þe reill. 1. society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] > noisy or riotous c1390 in C. Brown (1924) 143 Þis day, as leef we may be liht..To Reuele wiþ þis buirdes briht. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) iv. 2719 (MED) Whan that he seth the lusti knyhtes Revelen..Awey he skulketh as an hare. c1440 (?a1400) 3207 (MED) Now may we reuell and riste, fore Rome es oure awen. a1500 (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Munich) (1911) 500 (MED) They revele, lawgh, and pley wyth þe maydenys ffre. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. C3, in (rev. ed.) The Hall was full of all sorts of people, reuelling, playing, and occupied in pastime. 1598 J. Marston iii. x. sig. H3v The Orbes celestiall Will daunce Kemps Iigge. They'le reuel with neate iumps. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. ii. 116 See, Antony that Reuels long a-nights Is notwithstanding vp. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton iv. 765 Here Love his golden shafts imploies,..Reigns here and revels . View more context for this quotation 1721 E. Young iv. i. 46 It will cut my poor Heart thro' and thro' To see those revel on your sacred Tomb, who brought you thither. 1763 J. Brown 193 The Patrician Ladies, who lately had reveled amidst the Spoils of a subjected World, now begged before their own Doors. 1824 C. G. Garnett 180 Her hair unloosed to revel with the winds. 1836 W. Irving II. 111 Here, then, they revelled and reposed after their hungry and weary travel. 1855 T. B. Macaulay III. xii. 233 It was suspected that Walker had laid up..a secret store of food, and was revelling in private. 1883 G. A. Simcox II. v. iii. 82 Nero and his courtiers, to be sure, revelled till midnight and later, but this was exceptional. 1923 C. Morley 24 He was annoyed also that on this occasion his wife revelled all night, not coming to bed until 8 the next morning. 1955 H. Wouk 143 An incoherent tale of a brilliant scapegrace who had..revelled around Europe for years, and drifted at last into Tin Pan Alley. 1999 S. Broughton et al. I. i. 174/2 ‘Wren boys’ or mummers who went out revelling and playing music on Wrens Day (Dec 26). society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] > noisy or riotous 1580 2nd & 3rd Blast of Retrait from Plaies in W. C. Hazlitt (1869) 119 The people disperse them selues in Theaters, the whole multitude reuel it out at stages. a1592 R. Greene (1594) sig. C4 Go reuell it, Till I and Frier Bacon talke a while. a1641 R. Montagu (1642) 435 Thus they revell it all night, till morning. 1679 14 A parcel of Brewers, Draymen, and Coblers revell'd it upon the sweat of our Brows. ?1770 clvi. 83 All the day we'd our pleasures pursue, And revel it over the plain. 1772 I. 177 The husband may revel it with his mistress, and the wife with her gallant. 1822 W. Scott III. xi. 319 Thou must needs leave duty, and decency..to revel it gaily with the wild and with the wicked. 1865 H. Wedgwood III. at Reaks To revel it, to play reaks. the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > take joy or delight in [verb (transitive)] 1592 R. Greene sig. C4 To you all that liue and reuell in such wickednesse as I haue done, to you I write, and in Gods name wish you to looke to your selues. 1608 sig. B Midnight still I loue you, And reuel in your Company. 1693 J. Dennis 19 Wanton on the Wings of Love I flee, To roul and revel in full Joys, and Thee. 1757 T. Gray Ode I ii. iii, in 9 Alike..the pomp of tyrant-Power, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. a1770 T. Cradock Maryland Eclogues viii, in (1983) 185 And now he revels in Dorinda's Charms, Forgetful of Jemima's vacant Arms. 1802 W. Paley xix. 373 Maggots revel in putrefaction. 1821 Ld. Byron ii. i. 43 To the delighted west, which revels in Its hues of dying glory. 1883 J. Gilmour xi. 131 The government in carrying out the extreme penalty of its law..deliberately revels in ingenious cruelty. 1908 E. M. Forster i. 10 I revel in shaking off the trammels of respectability, as you know. 1951 E. Bowen ii. 32 Gentry up from the country, from gaunt Irish mansions..would revel in the brightness and modernity. 1990 A. C. Amor (new ed.) x. 142 Annie was dazzled by his luxurious lifestyle, revelling in her position as his mistress. 2. society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > spend extravagantly [verb (transitive)] > on revel or party society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [verb (transitive)] > spend (time) in riotous merrymaking > squander or destroy in ?1526 M. Roper tr. Erasmus vi. sig. f.iii He hadde spent and reuelled out all his fathers substaunce. 1606 T. Heywood sig. C2v Receiue it heare and reuell it away in an other place. 1714 T. Lucas 264 Ill-got Treasure is always wasting like Snow in a Thaw..Having revelled away the greatest part of it in expensive Ordinaries, at last he was reduced to..extreme want. 1725 E. Haywood I. 8 Young Spendthrifts, who, indulging themsleves in the Vices of the Age, had revelled away the greatest part of what their careful Ancestors had saved. 1813 W. Scott i. 27 If gold he gave, in one wild day I revelled thrice the sum away. 1862 15 Nov. 307 They revel it away in careless fashion; and next morning the borrowing is renewed. 1883 G. H. Boker v. i. 99 You shall revel out A prince's ransom; live a gentleman, And kick work to the devil. society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [verb (transitive)] > spend (time) in riotous merrymaking 1605 sig. F1 Why do thy our highnes in your foe-mens tents Reuell away the time, and yeld your person, To the knowne malice of your enemies. 1629 J. Ford iv. 66 An age of pleasures reuel'd out, comes home At last, and ends in sorrow. 1664 K. Philips lxi. 180 There Revel out a Winter's night, Not making Love, but Sport. 1691 J. Dryden iv. i. 38 The Ringlets round her Trunk declare her guilty Of many Midnight-Sabbaths Revell'd here. 1725 C. Cibber iv. 54 Too prompt to murmur, at Their Toils, while Cæsar revels out the War! 1740 T. Cooke tr. Hesiod Wks. & Days ii, in tr. Hesiod 78 When from the joyous feast you come all gay, In her fair arms revel the night away. 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace i. vi. 59 If he lives well, who revels out the Night, Be Gluttony our Guide. 1852 E. C. Gaskell Cumberland Sheep-shearers in 18 Sept. 446/1 The low deep hum of myriads of insects revelling out their summer lives. 1883 M. L. O'Byrne xii. 192 Let France, Spain, Italy, where you will, be the theatre where we shall revel out the honeymoon. 1905 N. Gallizier ii. viii. 252 Madden me not with thy refusal, else revel out thy dream in the everlasting flames! 1955 E. Schroeder 400 They revelled out the night on high. society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [verb (transitive)] > spend (time) in riotous merrymaking > drive out by a1652 R. Brome (1657) ii. i. sig. C2v/1 Let work no more be thought on, We will revel it out Of remembrance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † revelv.2Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin revellere. Etymology: < classical Latin revellere to tear loose, wrench off, to tear up, to tear out, to remove forcibly < re- re- prefix + vellere to pull (see vulsion n.). Compare revulse v. In senses 1a, 1b semantically influenced by revulsion n. Obsolete. 1. Medicine. 1583 P. Barrough v. ix. 222 In all members of the bodie, whether you intend to reuell (that is) to draw backe among an other way [etc.]. 1684 tr. T. Bonet xix. 809 We must revel, if the humours run whither they should not. 1725 J. Freind I. 268 Gentle Evacuations seem to answer both these ends, especially bleeding and purging; both as they empty, and as they revell. the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > remove or disperse [verb (transitive)] > disperse, etc., humours or morbid matter 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau viii. v. f. 43/2 It then revelleth, and drawethe backe agayne those humors which concurre towardes the Eyes [Fr. Ramener l'humeur qui decoule sur les yeux, & destourner de son cours]. 1651 N. Biggs 169 ⁋232 Unlesse the confluent bloud, avelling the pleura,..be revelled by a large effusion of bloud. 1684 tr. T. Bonet xix. 699 There is more of vicious Humours than can be revelled by the Bath toward the Skin. 1752 T. Dale tr. J. Freind (ed. 2) xi. 121 By opening a vein in the arm, since some part is revelled upwards, the Uterine passages are indeed freed from Pressure. society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or penetrate (of weapon) [verb (transitive)] > pull weapon from wound the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with sharp weapon > pull out weapon 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid xiii. 265 His brest..The deadly sword, where it could enter, bor'd. Nor could his strength the fixed steele reuell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020). <  n.1a1375 n.21603 v.1c1390v.21583 |
