Middle English Dictionary Entry
revelen v.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | revelen v.(1) Also revel(e, revelle. |
| Etymology | OF reveler |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To engage in merrymaking or revelry, carouse, hold festivities.
Associated quotations
- c1390 Whon Men beoþ (Vrn)15 : Þis day, as leef we may be liht, Wiþ al þe murþes þat men may vise, To Reuele wiþ þis buirdes briht.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.2719 : Whan that he seth the lusti knyhtes Revelen..Awey he skulketh as an hare.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)2401 : We schyn reuel þe remnaunt of þis ryche fest ful bene.
- c1415 Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Corp-O 198)F.1015 : Hire oþer frendes..in þe aleyes romed vp and don..But sodeinly bygan to reuel newe.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)3207 : Now may we reuell and riste, fore Rome es oure awen.
- c1440 Degrev.(Thrn)371 : Þay dawnesid and reueld [vr. revelide] þat nyghte.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)3463 : Aȝt daies all bedene he dites in his pistill..to revell & halowe.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)11618 : I teche hem..To pleye on sondry Instrumentys..And to revelle at taverne.
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)4852 : Of al her trauaile and al her woo Shal anoþer make him bliþe, Spende and waste and reuel swiþe.
- a1500(?a1400) Torrent (Chet 8009)2467 : Knyghtis and lordys reuelid all.
- a1500 Alex.-Cassamus (Cmb Ff.1.6)500 : They revele, lawgh, and pley wyth þe maydenys ffre.