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单词 revel-rout
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revel-routn.

Brit. /ˈrɛvlraʊt/, U.S. /ˈrɛv(ə)lˌraʊt/
Forms: see revel n.1 and rout n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: revel n.1, rout n.1
Etymology: < revel n.1 + rout n.1 Compare also quots. ?a1425, c1475 at rout v.6 2.
Chiefly with direct allusion to classical sources in later use.
1.
a. Uproarious revelry; wild or boisterous merrymaking; (also) disorder, chaos, pandemonium. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun] > noisy or riotous
riotingc1390
revelling1395
revelc1400
revelryc1410
revel-rout?1499
jetting1509
deray?a1513
company keeping1529
banqueting1535
roistingc1560
wassailinga1586
riotise1590
roister-doisterdom1592
reels1603
roaring1617
ranting1633
rattle1688
high jinks1699
roistering1805
spree1808
wassailry1814
revelment1822
Tom and Jerryism1822
spreeing1845
to be on the roister1860
riotousness1882
whoopee1928
?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Biij What reuell route quod he.
1522 Worlde & Chylde (de Worde) (1909) sig. C.iij I wolde we were at stewes For there is nothynge but reuell route And we were there I had no doubte.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. xvi. 430 After all this reuel-rout they demaund againe of the Demoniake, if the God be appeased.
1628 H. Greenwood Wks. 11 Let vs keepe this Feast with ioy and thanksgiuing..not with reuell rout, gaming and prophanenesse.
a1680 S. Charnock Wks. (1684) I. Suppl. 16 Revel-rout is usual where there is a negligent Government.
1748 W. Shenstone School-mistress xxx, in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (ed. 2) I. 266 With boist'rous revel-rout and wild uproar.
1755 J. Charles Dispersion Men at Babel xiv. 318 What became of the former Heaven, so over-run with Revel-Rout?
a1835 W. Motherwell in Poet. Wks. (1849) 135 In revel rout They kick peeled skulls about.
1912 E. S. Way tr. Euripides Cyclops 567 The jolly spring season is tempting me out To dance on the meadow-clover With my Cyclop brothers in revel-rout!
b. An occasion or period of revelling; a revel.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > [noun] > noisy or riotous
revela1375
riotc1440
revel-rout1587
wassail1603
randan1640
rant1650
high-go1774
splore?a1786
gilravagea1796
spree1804
lark1811
spray1813
shindy1821
randy1825
randy-dandy1835
batter1839
flare-up1844
barney1850
jamboree1868
tear1869
whoop-up1876
beano1888
razzle1892
razzle-dazzle1893
bash1901
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1136/1 I haue borrowed the report of this reuell rowt.
a1652 R. Brome Queenes Exchange (1657) ii. ii. sig. C3 v Wilt thou forsake us Jeffrey? then who shall daunce The hobby horse at our next Revel rout?
1713 N. Rowe Jane Shore i. i My Brother..Is gone to his Account, For this, his Minion, The Revel-rout is done.
1796 ‘A. Pasquin’ New Brighton Guide (ed. 6) 32 Mr R—gby officiated at this revel-rout.
1837 F. Kemble Star of Seville (ed. 2) ii. i. 47 You are rather..the quick deviser of these full excesses, than a mere actor in the revel rout.
1927 M. F. Bellinger Short Hist. Drama ii. vii. 51 Traditions of the komos, or revel-rout, which, long previous to the fifth century, must have been a veritable orgy of play-acting, topical songs, lampoons, and ridiculous antics.
1997 R. Melville tr. Lucretius On Nature of Universe 158 Next autumn comes and Bacchus' revel rout; Then follow other seasons, other winds.
2. A crowd or party of revellers; (also) a high-spirited, wild, or abandoned group of people.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaker > [noun] > noisy or riotous > crowd of
revel-rout1596
1596 P. Colse Penelopes Complaint sig. E2v When Vlysses comes, no doubt, He wil asswage this reuel rout.
?1719–20 Merry Piper 10 Ay, that we will, we'll break your Spell, reply'd the revel-rout.
1754 W. Dodd Sisters I. iii. vi. 197 Unluckily for poor Lucy, she was the first of all the seven ladies who made her appearance amidst this revel-rout of rakes and bloods.
1789 W. Gilbank Day of Pentecost v. 115 The revel rout of gay and wanton dames, The daughters of high-minded murd'rous Cain.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth v, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 172 ‘Our monarch has abdicated sooner than usual this night,’ said one of the revel rout.
1865 H. H. Milman Bacchanals 106 Bromius, that his revel rout To the mountains leads about.
1908 L. Abercrombie in Poems (1930) 215 The sleepless lusts of Holofernes Madden themselves all night, a revel-rout Of naked girls luring him as he lies.
1993 C. Gruzeiler tr. Claudian De Raptu Proserpinae 227 The..picture of the grisly revelrout of Furies besieging the house.

Phrases

to keep (also make, play) revel-rout: to engage in revelry; to act in a boisterous, wild, or disorderly manner; cf. to keep (also play) revel rex at revel rex n. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. i. sig. A.ijv Sometime Dauy Diceplayer..Keepeth reuell route as long as it will last.
1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 558 Then made they revell route and goodly glee.
a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) v. ix. sig. M1v Ther's a strange thing like a gentlewoman,..Playes revell rowt among us.
1684 C. Cotton Ερωτοπολις 180 Whatever Revel-Rout they make when they get this Distemper, yet when they find themselves tainted, [they] are the most cautious that can be to let their Friends, Relations, or Acquaintance know it.
1725 Z. Grey Looking-glass Schismaticks i. 52 Let us mock and play, let us feast and keep Revel-Rout, for to-morrow we die.
1780 R. Cumberland Songs in Widow of Delphi iv. 23 My heart Sinks to a more ignoble part; There keeps a roaring revel rout, Thumping and thundering about.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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