单词 | revelous |
释义 | revelousadj. Given to revelling; of or characterized by revelry. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaker > [adjective] > noisy or riotous revelousc1405 roistinga1556 roisterous1575 roaringa1593 ranting1609 roistering1613 tory-rory1678 scouring1691 wassailous1893 society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [adjective] > noisy or riotous revelous1546 roisterly1555 roisting1567 roisterous1575 roister-doistering1593 roister-doisterly1593 roisteringa1679 revelling1769 revelrous1820 spreeish1825 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 4 A wyf he hadde of excellent beautee And compaignable and reuelous was she. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Jiv By reuellous rydyng on euery royle. 1792 J. Kirkpatrick Proof in Libel before Presbytery Kirkudbright 143 He was never in these revellous companies with him that are libelled. 1850 J. Struthers Poor Man's Sabbath xiii, in Poet. Wks. I. 48 A day of revelous dissipation. 1864 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 7) 308 I deemed him in our revellous days gone by, Intolerably sad. 1939 Educ. Res. Bull. 18 78 Collective behaviour..is divided into four major types: cultural, including institutional behaviour..and escape, ranging from panic behaviour, through revelous, fanatical and rebellious. 1975 R. Geesin Fallables (BNC) 13 A revelous fellow, with brain made of yellow, came down from the clouds one day. 1998 J. Dibble C. H. H. Parry i. iii. 47 The more revelous, not to say drunken, escapades took place in the ‘Adelphi’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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