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单词 ravery
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raveryn.

Brit. /ˈreɪvəri/, U.S. /ˈreɪvəri/, Scottish English /ˈrevərɪ/
Forms: 1600s–1800s ravery, 1800s– ravary (English regional (East Anglian)); Scottish pre-1700 raueries (plural), pre-1700 rav'ry, pre-1700 1700s raverie, pre-1700 1700s ravery, 1900s– raiverie.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rave v.1, -ery suffix.
Etymology: < rave v.1 + -ery suffix, perhaps as alteration of reverie n. Compare Old French raverie , variant of reverie (see rave v.1).
Originally and chiefly Scottish. Now rare.
As a count noun: = raving n.1 2. Also as a mass noun: delirium, madness; wild, irrational, or incoherent speech or declamation (cf. raving n.1 1).
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > delirium or raving
wood dreameOE
mazec1300
paraphrenesisa1398
ravinga1398
deliramentc1450
idleness1535
delirium1563
randing1583
calenture1593
deliration1598
taveringa1599
ravery1599
delirement1613
debacchation1633
delirancy1645
deliry1657
deliriousness1671
paraphrenitis1683
paraphrosyne1684
deliracy1689
delirousness1694
paracope1749
paraphora1749
wandering1836
paralerema1848
paraleresis1857
paraphronesis1857
rambling1897
the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > unhealthy excitement > [noun] > wild or delirious behaviour
ravery1599
1599 A. Hume Hymnes Ep. to Rdr. sig. A3v To rehearse some fabulos faits of Palmerine, Amadis, or other such like raueries.
1627 P. Hay Advt. Subj. Scotl. 105 I doe not doubt, but this New Reason, which I doe put in from the Mysterie of the Number, will bee thought of manie a Capritch, or Raverie of a Phantasticke Braine.
1634 ‘Philiatreus’ Gen. Pract. Med. sig. A3 Ravery designes the braine to bee distempered.
1640 W. Vaughan Church Militant 341 Fly, Readers, fly, and shunne such Baites as these, Which though they for a time the Sences please, At last they breed a Soule-sick ravery, Which will from Truth distast your Memory.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 105 If the King have sense enough not to give credit to all their raveries.
1703 J. Brown Stone returning upon Him that roll'd It 3 I have no mind to trudge after him through his many pitifull Raveries.
1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. (1828) III. 348 The raveries and blasphemies emitted by John Gib.
1754 S. Fielding & J. Collier Cry II. iii. x. 143 Portia should not be indulged in such mad raveries.
1851 H. Schliemann Jrnl. 1 Nov. in S. H. Weber Schliemann's First Visit to Amer. (1942) 69 I caught it [sc. a fever] on the 4th October..from the 6th to the 20th I was lying in continual ravery.
1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Ravary, a violent mad fit of passion, attended with loud vociferation.
1958 Mearns Leader 14 Feb. Yon raiverie aboot a young man's fancy turnin' lichtly tae thochts o' love.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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