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The faculties of Reuchlin, which were naturally vigorous, 
were cultivated by him through life with the greatest industry, 
and his mind became richly stored with various erudition. 
With what reputation he acquitted himself in the different 
public stations which he occupied, has been sufficiently 
shewn in the preceding narrative. His private character was 
eminently distinguished by probity, modesty, benevolence, 
candour, and urbanity. For his assiduous and sucessful at¬ 
tempts towards the revival of learning, his name is deserving 
of being remembered with gratitude by posterity; and also 
for the zeal in that cause which he discovered in his last will, 
by bequeathing to the college of Pforzheim his collection of 
books and manuscripts, which in that age must have been 
an invaluable treasure. His collection of “ Letters from 
Illustrious Men,” of which an edition was published at Zurich 
in 1558, is full of valuable information concerning the 
literary history of his time. With respect to the “ Epistol® 
Obscurorum Virorum,” which have been very commonly 
attributed to him, they belong to Ulric of Hutten, as we 
have already observed in the life of Pfefferkorn. Dupin, 
after observing that he was one of the most learned men of 
that age, asserts that he was the first Christian who 
applied closely to the study of Jewish learning, and 
the Cabbalistical mysteries. In the former part of this state¬ 
ment he is not accurate, since the study of the books of the 
Jews was cultivated by Raymond Martin, a Spanish Do¬ 
minican monk in the 13th century. (See his article.) Per¬ 
haps he justly asserts concerning Reuchlin, that there are 
few who have become more thoroughly acquainted with the 
Cabbalistical art than he was. He adds, that, notwithstand¬ 
ing his attachment to such crabbed studies, he had a wonder¬ 
ful genius for the belles-lettres; was intimately conversant 
with the Grecian philosophers and orators; was a perfect 
master of the Greek language, and spoke Latin with an 
inimitable purity and elegance; and that he was, in short, 
the only person of whom Germany at that time could boast, 
who deserved to be regarded as a competitor for fame with 
all the learned men in Italy; who was their equal in the 
delicacy of his style, while he greatly excelled them in eru¬ 
dition. From Cave and Dupin the reader may collect the 
titles at length of the greater number of his publications, as 
well as the places and dates of their different editions. 
Melchior. Adam Vit. Germ. Phil. Arc. Appendix ad 
Cave's Hist. Lit. Vol. II. sub scec. Synod. Dupin. Moreri. 
Enfield's Hist. Phil. Vol, II. b. viii. ch. Hi. sect. 3. 
REVE, s. The bailiff of a franchise or manor. See Reeve. 
The reve was a slendre colerike man:— 
Wei coude he kepe a garner and a binne ; 
There was none auditor coude on him winne: 
Wei wiste he by the drought, and by the raine, 
The yelding of his seed, and of his grain. Chaucer. 
REVE-LAND. The land which in Domesday is said to 
have been thane-land, and afterwards converted into reve- 
land, seems to be such land as, being reverted to the king 
after the death of the thane, who had it for life, was not since 
granted out to any by the king, but rested in charge upon 
the account of the reve, or bailiff of the manor. Spelm. 
Feuds, cap. 24. 
To REVEA'L, v. a. [revelo, Lab] To show; to disco¬ 
ver; to lay open; to disclose a secret.—-The answer to one 
who asked what time was, si non rogas intelligo ; that is, 
the more I think of time, the less I understand it; might per¬ 
suade one, that time, which reveals all other things, is itself 
not to be discovered. Locke. —To impart from heaven.— 
The sufferings of this life are not to be compared with the 
glory which shall be revealed in us. Rom. viii. 18. 
REVEA'LER, s. Discoverer; one that shows or makes 
known.—The lives of the rev eaters may be justly set over 
against the revelation, to find whether they agree. Atter- 
bury. —One that discovers to view. 
He brought a taper; the revealer light 
Expos’d both, crime and criminal to sight. Dry den. 
REVEA'LMENT, s. The act of revealing.—This is one 
reason why God permits so many heinous impieties to be 
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concealed here on earth, because he intends to dignify that 
day with the revealment of them. South. 
REVEPLLE, or Revei'lle, s. [French: from reveiller, 
to awake.] The military notice by beat of drum, about day¬ 
break, that it is time to rise. 
Sound the trumpet, beat the drum; 
Through all the world around; 
Sound a reveille, sound, sound, 
The warrior god is come. Dry den. 
To RE'VEL, v. n. [Skinner derives it from reveiller, Fr- 
to awake; Lye from ravelen, raveelen, Dutch, to rove loosely 
about, which is much countenanced by the old phrase, revel- 
rout. Dr. Johnson. —Tyrrwhitt illustrates the word, in the 
Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, as, “ entertainment, properly 
during the night;” thus evidently alluding to the Fr. reveiller, 
to awake, or to keep awake. “ And made revel all thelonge 
night.” Chaucer. Todd.~\ —To feast with loose and clam¬ 
orous merriment. 
My honey love, 
Will we return into thy father’s house, 
And revel it as bravely as the best. Shakspeare. 
RE'VEL, s. A feast with loose and noisy jollity.—What 
makes the studious man prefer a book before a revel, the 
rigors of contemplation and retirement-before merry-meet¬ 
ings and jolly company ?— Because a nobler pleasure has 
rendered those inferior ones tasteless and contemptible. 
South. 
RE'VEL-ROUT, s. A mob; an unlawful assembly of 
a rabble. Ainsworth. —Tumultuous festivity.-—For this his 
minion, the revel-rout is done. Rowe. 
To RE'VEL, v. a. [revello , Lat] To retract; to draw 
or drive back.—Those, who miscarry, escape by their flood, 
revelling the humours from their lungs. Harvey. 
RE'VEL, s. Revulsion. Unused. —Venesection in the 
left arm does more immediate revel, yet the difference is 
minute. Friend’s Hist, of Physick. 
REVEL, or Kolyvan, the capital of Esthonia, a pro¬ 
vince in the north-west of European Russia, is situated on a 
small bay of the gulf of Finland. It has an excellent harbour, 
well secured against all winds, and so well defended by the 
works of the town, and by batteries on some islands at its 
mouth, that it has little to apprehend from a hostile fleet, as 
was experienced in 1790, when the Swedes failed before it, 
in a bold and well supported attack. The town is fortified 
by a mound and ditch, as well as by a citadel on a rock. 
It is divided into three parts, called the town, the suburb, 
and the Domberg. The houses are of brick, and tolerably 
well built; but the streets are, with few exceptions, narrow 
and irregular. The churches are thirteen in number, of 
which six are for the Greek faith, and the others for the 
Lutheran. The town having been built by the Danes, these 
churches, and several of the other ancient edifices, bear 
Danish inscriptions and coats of arms. Here is a public 
library, a military academy, and several schools, infirmaries, 
and poor houses. A small palace adjacent to the shore, with 
gardens open to the public, is a pleasant resort. 
The population of Revel, amounting tq about 13,000, are 
descended from German and Russian settlers, and in a smaller 
degree from Swedes, Finns, and Esthonians. The exports 
consist of corn, timber, hemp, and spirituous liquors, from 
the interior. The imports are bay salt, sugar, coffee, and 
British manufactures. Some glass and leather are made on 
the spot. The average number of merchantmen that arrive* 
in a year is about 200. Revel was founded by the Danes in 
1218, conquered at a subsequent date by the Swedes, and 
taken from the latter in 1710, by the Russians; 200 miles 
west of St. Petersburg!!, and 180 west-by-north of Riga. 
Lat. 59. 26. 33. N. long. 24 39. 9. E. 
REVEL, a town of France, department of the Upper 
Garonne, situated on a height not far from the great canal of 
Languedoc. It has a population of 3800, who manufacture 
linen, woollens, stockings, and caps. During the civil war 
of the 16th century, it was taken and fortified by the Cal¬ 
vinists, 
