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( Nares.) 2. A lawle , uproarious revel; wild revelry; noisy merriment. Then made they revell route and goodly glee. Spenser , Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 558. The Sorcerers and Sorcere es make great lights, and incense all this visited house, laughing, singing, dauncing in honour of that God. After all this reuel - rout they demaund againe of the Demoniake if the God be ap- peased. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 430. 3. A dancing entertainment. Wilt thou forsake us, Jeffrey? then who shall daunce The hobby horse at our next Revel rout ? Brome, Queens Exchange, ii. 2. To play revel-rout, to revel furiously; carouse; act the bacchanalian. They chose a notable swaggering rogue called Puffing Dicke to reuell ouer them, who plaid reuell - rout with them indeede. Rowlands, Hist. Rogues, quoted in Ribton-Turner's Va[grants and Vagrancy, p. 582. revelry (rev'el-ri), n . [ revelrie ; as revell +-ry.] The act of reveling; merrymaking; especially, boisterous festivity or jollity. The swetne e of her melodye Made al myn herte in revelrye [var. reverye ]. Rom . of the Rose , 1. 720. Meantime, forget this new-fall'n dignity, And fall into our rustic revelry.- Play, music! Shak., As you Like it, v. 4. 183. between evolutionists and revelationists .