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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

... idolatry which kneels only to "Natural Laws"; and spring as suppliants to Him, who made Law possible. We take our portion of happiness and prosperity, and while it lasts we wander far, far away in the seductive land of philosophical speculation, and revel in the freedom and irresponsibility of Agnosticism; and lo! when adversity smites, and bankruptcy is upon us, we toss the husks of the "Unknowable and Unthinkable" behind us, and flee as the Prodigal who knew his father, to that God whom ...

— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... had to ask a favour of them. Were it granted, he would value it above all things; should they think good to refuse, he would bear no grudge against them. Here he paused; the favour remained undisclosed; and he left popular imagination to revel in the possibilities of his claims. It was a happy stroke; for he had filled the minds of his auditors with a gratifying sense of their own boundless power, and with suspicions of illegal ambitions, ...

— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge

... dining with Madame d'Urfe who continued to revel in the joys of her regeneration, I paid a visit to the Corticelli in her asylum. I found her sad and suffering, but content, and well pleased with the gentleness of the surgeon and his wife, who told me they would effect a radical cure. I gave her ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... Pat, seizing upon his treasure. It was pigtail. You may see coils of it in the tobacconists' windows of seaport towns. A pipe full of it would make a hippopotamus vomit, yet old sailors chew it and smoke it and revel in it. ...

— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... and then he and the missus depart from the Island, he bearing a large straw marketing bag, she carrying a string-bag and one of those natty stout-paper bags given away by greengrocers and milliners. As soon as the 'bus has tossed them into Salmon Lane, off Commercial Road, they begin to revel. ...

— Nights in London • Thomas Burke

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