KJV Dictionary Definition: revel

revel

REV'EL, v.i. L. rabo, rabio, to rage, whence rabies, rabid.

1. To feast with loose and clamorous merriment; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian.

Antony, that revels long o'nights.

2. To move playfully or without regularity.

REV'EL, n. A feast with loose and noisy jollity.

Some men ruin the fabric of their bodies by incessant revels.

revelation

REVELA'TION, n. L. revelatus, revelo. See Reveal.

1. The act of disclosing or discovering to others what was before unknown to them; appropriately, the disclosure or communication of truth to men by God himself, or by his authorized agents, the prophets and apostles.

How that by revelation he made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in few words. Eph. 3. 2Cor. 12.

2. That which is revealed; appropriately, the sacred truths which God has communicated to man for his instruction and direction. The revelations of God are contained in the Old and New Testament.

3. The Apocalypse; the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John.

reveler

REV'ELER, n. See Revel. One who feasts with noisy merriment.

reveling

REV'ELING, ppr. Feasting with noisy merriment; carousing.

REV'ELING, n. A feasting with noisy merriment; revelry. Gal. 5. 1Peter 4.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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