| 单词 | to keep revel-rout |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep (also make, play) revel-rout † 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. < as lemmas |
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