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revel revell (rev'el), n. [ reevel , revell , revel (= Pr. revel ) , pride, rebellion, sport, jest, disturbance, disorder, delay, reveler , re beller , F. rebeller , rebel, revolt, = Sp. rebelar = Pg . rebellar = It. ribellare , rebel lare , rebel lare , rebel: see rebel , v . Hence, by contraction, rule2.] 1. A merrymaking; a feast or festivity characterized by boisterous jollity; a carouse; hence, mirth-making in general; revelry. Whan the i com in to the town the i fonde ladyes and may denes carolinge and daunsinge, and the most reu ell and disport that myght be made. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 448. Reuelle a manges thame was full ryfe. Thomas of Er eldoune (Child's Ballads, I. 106). The brief night goes In babble and revel and wine. Tennyson , Maud, xxii. 5. 2. Specifically-( a ) A kind of dance or choric performance often given in connection with masques or pageants; a dancing proce ion or entertainment: generally used in the plural. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air. Shak ., Tempest, iv. 1. 148. IMG:content-2144.png:[blocks in formation] revenge None a stranger there So merry and so gamesome; he is call'd The Briton reveller . Shak ., Cymbeline, i. 6. 61. In the ears of the brutalized and drunken revellers there arose the sound of the clanking of British cavalry. H. Kingsley , Stretton, liii. Specifically-(b) One who dances in a revel; one who takes part in a choric entertainment. It is no disgrace, no more than for your adventurous reveller to fall by some inauspicious chance in his galliard. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 1. revelingt, n. Same as riveling2 . revellent (re-vel'ent), a . [= Pg. It. revellente , revellen (t-) s , ppr. of revellere , pluck or tear back, off, away, or out: see revel2 .] Causing revulsion. reveller, n. See reveler . revel-master (rev'el-mas"tėr), n . The master or director of the revels at Christmas; the lord of misrule. revelment (rev'el-ment), n. [ revel1 + -ment . ] When God declares any truth to us, this is a revelation . Locke, Human Understanding, IV. vii. 2. More specifically-3. Such disclosure, com- municated by supernatural means, of truths The act of reveling. which could not be ascertained by natural means; hence, as containing such revelation, the Bible. Divine revelation may be afforded by any one of four media- ( a ) nature, (b) history, (c) conscious- ne , or (d) supernatural and direct communications. In cing, and makes an excellent shew in truth. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, iii. 2. The Revels were dances of a more free and general na nifies exclusively the last form of revelation. Revelation differs from inspiration , the latter being an exaltation of the natural faculties, the former a communication to or least not otherwise known. revelourt, n. An obsolete form of reveler . reveloust, a . [ revelous , reveleux , full of revelry or jest, riotous, revel , riot, revel: see revel1 , п . Cf. rebellious .] Inclined to festivity and merrymaking. A wyf he hadde of excellent beautee, And compaignable and revelous was she. Chaucer , Shipman's Tale, 1. 4. of the piece under representation. In these many of the nobility of both sexes took part, who had previously been spectators. The Revels , it appears from other pa ages, were usually composed of galliards and corantos.