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/rˈɛvəl/ Listen

verb

Revel v. t. To draw back; to retract. (Obs.)

Revel v. i. (past & past part. reveled or revelled; pres. part. reveling or revelling)

To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry.

To move playfully; to indulge without restraint. "Where joy most revels."

noun

Reveal n.

A revealing; a disclosure. (Obs.)

(Arch.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. (Written also revel)

Revel n. (Arch.) See Reveal. (R.)

Revel n. A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal. "This day in mirth and revel to dispend." "Some men ruin... their bodies by incessant revels."

Master of the revels, Revel master. Same as Lord of misrule, under Lord.

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"Revel" Quotes from Famous Books

... cave that is said to be in the top of the hill of Atlizco, and sometimes a ghost had been seen wandering about the hill by certain benighted villagers; and one time, when the accusing monk was returning rather later than usual from a drunken revel, this ghost who had now become the town-talk, chanced to fall in with him, and to give him such a beating as few living men could inflict, and then disappeared. Still there was no earthquake, and the sun rose and set as ...

— Mexico and its Religion • Robert A. Wilson

... be about midnight on the fifth of January, the day preceding the well-known revel, now come to be mainly a children's festival, which English people call Twelfth Night and celebrate by the consumption of huge plumcakes and the drawing of lots for the offices of king and queen of the revels. The Italians call it the festival of the "Befana," the word being a readily-perceived ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. • Various

... objections were raised, and Gamelyn and his friends held high revel for a week, while Sir John lay hidden in his turret, terrified at the noise and revelry, and dreading what his brother might do to him now he ...

— Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race • Maud Isabel Ebbutt

... with Roman Catholic than with Protestant Courts, the Tudors were exceptions to the rule. Under Queen Elizabeth, Hampton Court saw again something of the brilliancy and pageantry in which her father had delighted. Here Her Majesty held high revel at Christmas on more than one occasion—"if ye would know what we do here," wrote one in attendance to a friend, in 1592, "we play at tables, dance—and keep Christmas". Elizabeth had been brought to Hampton Court shortly after the marriage of her sister with ...

— Hampton Court • Walter Jerrold

... the gold. Before the Woodville reached Burlington, the dissolute young man had resolved to obtain the money if possible, prompted partly by revenge, and partly by the desire to possess so large a sum, with which he could revel in luxury in some distant party of the country. It must be confessed that this resolve to commit a crime was not simply an impulse, for the young man who leads a life of indolence and dissipation is never at any great distance from crime. Ben ...

— Haste and Waste • Oliver Optic

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