| 单词 | to keep revel rex | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep (also play) revel rex   Pranks, antics, or capers associated with or suggestive of revelry. Only in  to keep (also play) revel rex. Cf. to keep (also play) reaks at reak n.; to keep (also make, play) revel-rout at revel-rout n. Phrases.In quot. 1566   with singular agreement: a period or occasion characterized by revelrous pranks or antics. ΚΠ 1566    J. Studley tr.  Seneca Agamemnon  v. i. sig. Fvii  				Within a reuell rexe is kept [L. res agitur intus magna], as sore as euer was. 1576    R. Robinson tr.  F. Patrizi Moral Methode Ciuile Policie iv. f. 43v  				Some women keepe suche Reuell rexe and coyle in daunsinge and leapinge, at banquettes and feastes, that for verye payne they eyther procure abortion before the tyme, or elles bringe the same foorthe verye weake and feeble. 1587    T. Newton tr.  L. Lemnius Herbal for Bible xxxiii. 176  				Antiochus compelled the Iewes..like persons distraught of their wits to range vp and downe, keeping reuell rex, and vsing all dissolute behauiour as the residue did that kept the feast of Bacchus. 1611    W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction  iii. viii. 201  				The Diuell..made the world beleeue that it was he [sc. God], which played reuell rex abroad in that terrible equipage. 1641    W. Vaughan Sovles Exercise v. 185  				Such spite they wrought on him with revel reakes Till word was brought to them, The Morning breakes.]			 < as lemmas  | 
	
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