单词 | revelling |
释义 | revellingrevelingn. The action of revel v.1 (in various senses); an instance of this.Recorded earliest in revelling chamber at Compounds.In quot. c1450: (the performance of) a play; cf. revel n.1 1a. 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 the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > [noun] merrinesseOE gladnessc900 mirtheOE playeOE dreamOE gladshipc975 lissOE willOE hightOE blithenessc1000 gladc1000 winOE blissc1175 delices?c1225 delight?c1225 joy?c1225 comfortc1230 listc1275 gladhead1303 daintyc1325 fainnessc1340 lightnessa1350 delectationc1384 delightingc1390 comfortationa1400 fainheada1400 blithec1400 fainc1400 delicacyc1405 gladsomeness1413 reveriea1425 joyousitiea1450 joyfulnessc1485 jucundity1536 joyousness1549 joc1560 delightfulness1565 jouissance1579 joyance1590 levitya1631 revelling1826 chuckle1837 joyancy1849 a song in one's heart1862 delightsomeness1866 1395 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 96 (MED) [A chamber called] le Revelyngchaumbre. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 371 (MED) This same receit..schulde be spend in werre or..in reueling, as sopers in nyȝtis at tauernes. c1450 (c1425) Brut (Cambr. Kk.1.12) 360 (MED) Þere þay cast to sle þe King yn hir revelyng. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. diiiiv With reualing and reuay all the oulk hale. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 123/14 Passand hir tyme in lust & revelling with companȝeouns. 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 694 All that els pertaines to reveling. 1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London vii. sig. F2v What a weeke of sinfull Reueling hath heere bin. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 651 As the Court grew burthensome even in time of Peace by Princely Revellings. 1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. v. 285 The wooing Tribe, in Revellings employ'd, My Stores have lavish'd. 1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 95 His Brother Thomas,..who from following Revellings and Hurlings became a Methodist Preacher. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. i. vi. 41 The young scholar, in the revelling of his enthusiasm. 1885 Cent. Mag. July 396/2 The vast crowds of men gathered at the fishing season made a sort of merry-meeting, and there was much drunkenness and reveling. 1907 H. P. Bell Men & Things xxxi. 290 Draw upon the revellings of a disordered fancy and the inspirations of an erratic imagination. 1958 J. Carew Black Midas vi. 113 I..joined the others in their revellings at night. 1998 Harper's Mag. July 27/1 It's in college that most Americans do their most serious falling-down drinking..and mindless Dionysian-type reveling. Compounds General attributive, as revelling chamber, revelling place, revelling night, etc. ΚΠ 1395Revelyngchaumbre [see main sense]. 1441 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1911) K. 263 (MED) The servauntis of the Crafte..have on holy dayes a revelyng hall & a drynkyng their, by the whych many of hem be not able to do no good werk a daye aftre. 1527 in J. S. Brewer Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1872) (modernized text) IV. ii. 1603 Repairing..an arbor in the Revelling Chamber within the tilt-yard at Greenwich. 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido 1075 I thinke it was the diuels reuelling night. 1653 J. Collinges Responsoria ad Erratica Piscatoris iii. sig. D4 It was..revelling time, the time for drinking and carding and all manner of licentiousnesse. 1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) xxxiii. 207 Idle People,..do oftentimes cut down, and carry away fine straight Trees, to set up before some Ale-house, or Revelling-place. ?1786 New Election Budget 19 76/1 The port pledged promise of the revelling night was confirmed by the cool deliberate breakfast of the morning. 1822 S. L. Fairfield Siege Constantinople ii. xxiv. 38 But still, re-echoed by the rushing air, Peals the wild music of the revelling halls. 1864 J. H. Speke What led to Discov. Source of Nile 352 The sun went down, and the cows usurped the revelling-place. 1912 F. C. Goss Cincinnati I. ii. iii. 393 Munich was the fairy revelling place of art. 1987 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 25 Feb. (Food section) 1 Twilight and night are reveling times for adults. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). revellingrevelingadj.1 That revels or is inclined to revel; (also) characterized by revelry. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaker > [adjective] merrya1350 revellingc1450 jolly1484 goodfellow-like1542 good-fellowly1573 jovial1607 jovialist1610 boona1612 merrymaking1616 festive1744 convivial1754 good-fellowish1839 rig-a-dig1851 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 c1450 ABC of Aristotle (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 12 [Be not] To riotus, to reueling, ne rage not to rudeli. 1578 T. Garter Commody of Susanna sig. C.iij The Reuels and the reueling cheare, that did eche harte delight. ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat f. 18v A reuelling riffe raffe of Tapsterly tauntes, and course hempen quippes. 1604 B. Jonson His Pt. Royall Entertainem. 11 She may pick A paire of reuelling legs or two. 1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer iii. 37 Spoken like a Revelling Christmas Lawyer. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 11 A spacious drawing-room, where a select revelling band usually met, in general parties of pleasure. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 298 Within you youth and health, and a revelling flow of blood and spirits wholly disguised and concealed the state of your nature from you. 1816 Dance of Death 2 Holbein..was given to wine and revelling company. 1892 Ld. Lytton King Poppy vii. 53 Thro' its roses, and its revelling leaves. 1913 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 101/1 Clusters of fruit, also poppies and ears of wheat,..are symbolical of the attributes of the revelling god to whom the temple is dedicated. 1923 M. A. Bald Women-writers 19th Cent. ii. iii. 41 Her taste was not so much grotesque as grim; it has a note of austerity, quite different from the revelling zest of Dickens. 1991 Climber & Hill Walker (BNC) 17 A celebratory tower built in 1838..but wrecked by revelling locals after the opening. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † revellingadj.2 Medicine. Obsolete. rare. Of a medicine or treatment: that causes revulsion (revulsion n. 1); revulsive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [adjective] > repelling or drawing off percussivea1398 repercussivea1398 repulsive?a1425 back-driving1562 repellent1575 revelling1592 depulsivec1615 repercutient1676 repellant1730 derivative1854 derivant1876 1592 N. Gyer Eng. Phlebotomy vi. 52 One by repelling things that beat backe the matter, another by thinges reuelling, which pull the matter cleane away, and draw it forth to the contrary part. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xi. 379 Vomitories are very profitable, as being a greatly revelling medicine. 1715 J. Delacoste tr. H. Boerhaave Aphorisms 354 This Damage and Mischief will be occasion'd by..the giving of any weakning, evacuating, revelling, or suffocating Remedy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1395adj.1c1450adj.21592 |
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