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vinists, but afterwards dismantled ; 30 miles south-east of 
Toulouse. 
REVEL’S ISLAND, a small island in the Atlantic ocean, 
close to the east coast of Northampton county, Virginia. 
REVELATION, s. Discovery; communication ; com- 
municai./'n of sacred and mysterious truths by a teacher from 
heaven.—When the divine revelations were committed to 
writing, the Jews were such scrupulous reverers of them, 
that they numbered even the letters of the Old Testament. 
Bee. of Chr. PieU/.— The Apocalypse ; the prophecy of 
St. John, revealing future things. See Theology. 
RE'VELLER, s. One who feasts with noisy jollity. 
Fairies black, grey, green and white. 
You moonshine revellers attend your office. Shalcspeare _ 
RETELLING, s. Loose jollity; revelry.'—They—used 
secret ceremonies, or made revellings of strange rites. 
JI7.se/. xiv. 23. 
REVELLO, a town of Italy, in Piedmont, situated on the 
declivity of a mountain, and fortified both by nature and art. 
It contains 5000 inhabitants, and has several well built 
churches, but no objects of interest, except a public edifice 
called the palace, and an old ruined castle. It was the birth¬ 
place of Carlo Denina, a historical writer; 9 miles north¬ 
west of Saluzzo. 
REVELSTOCK, a village of England, in Devonshire; 6J 
miles south-by-east from Earl’s Plympton. 
RE'VELRY, s. Loose jollity; festive mirth. 
Forget this new fall’n dignity. 
And fall into our rustic revelry. Shalcspeare. 
To REVE'NGE, v. a. [ revencher , revancher, Fr.] To 
return an injury. 
Not unappeased, he passed the Stygian gate. 
Who leaves a brother to revenge his fate. Pope. 
To vindicate by punishment of an enemy. 
If our hard fortune no compassion draws. 
The gods are just, and will revenge our cause. Dryden. 
To wreak one’s wrongs on him that inflicted them. With 
the reciprocal pronoun, or in a passive sense. 
Come, Anthony and young Octavius, come 
Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius, Shalcspeare. 
REVE'NGE, s. [revencke, revanche, Fr.] Return of 
an injury.—May we, with the witness of a good conscience, 
pursue him with further revenge. Shalcspeare. —'The pas¬ 
sion of vengeance; desire of hurting one from whom hurt 
has been received. 
Revenges burn in them: for their dear causes 
Would, to the bleeding and the grim alarm, 
Excite the mortified man. Shalcspeare. 
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance, of justice. 
Injuries are revenged ; crimes are avenged. This distinc¬ 
tion is perhaps not always preserved. Johnson. 
RE'VENGEFUL, adj. Vindictive; full of revenge; full 
of vengeance. 
If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive, 
Lo! here I lend thee this sharp pointed sword, 
Which hide in this true breast. Shalcspeare. 
REVE'NGEFULLY, adv. Vindictively. 
He smiled revengefully, and leap’d 
Upon the floor; thence gazing at the skies, 
His eye-balls fiery red, and glowing vengeance; 
Gods I accuse you not. Dryden and Lee. 
REVE'NGEFULNESS, $. Vindictiveness; state or qua¬ 
lity of being revengeful.—Boisterous wrath and stormy re¬ 
vengefulness; fool-hardy confidence, and indefatigable 
Contention about vain objects. 
REVE'NGELESS, adj. Unrevenged. 
We, full of hearty tears 
For our good father’s loss, 
Cannot so lightly over-jump his death 
As leave his woes revengeless. Marston, 
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REVENGER, s. One who revenges; one who wreaks 
his own or another’s injuries. 
I do not know, 
Whether my father should revengers want, 
Having a son and friends. Shalcspeare• 
One who punishes crimes.—What government can be 
imagined, without judicial proceedings ? and what methods 
of judicature, without a religious oath, which supposes an 
omniscient Being, as conscious to its falsehood or truth, and 
a revenger of perjury. Bentley. 
REVE'NGEMENT, s. Vengeance; return of an injury. 
It may dwell 
In her son’s flesh to mind rev'engement. 
And be for all chaste dames an endless monument. Spenser. 
REVE'NGINGLY, adv. With vengeance ; vindictively. 
I’ve bely’d a lady, 
The princess of this country; and the air on’t 
Revengingly enfeebles me. Shalcspeare. 
REVE'NUE, or Re'venue, s. Income; annual profit 
received from lands or other funds. 
She bears a duke’s revenues on her back. 
And in her heart scorns our poverty. Shalcspeare. 
The Revenue of Great Britain will be brought up to the 
date of our publication, under the article Taxation. 
Revenue was formerly used for a fungoid tumour, growing 
between the horns of deer; vulgarly reported to be bene¬ 
ficial, when distilled, for women in labour. 
To REVE'RB, p. a. [reverbero , Lat.] To resound; 
to reverberate. Not in use. 
Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; 
Nor are those empty hearted, whose loud sound 
Reverbs no hollowness. Shalcspeare. 
REVE'RBERANT, adj. [ reverberans, Lat.] Resound¬ 
ing ; beating back. The reading in the following passage 
of Shakspeare should be, I think, reverberant. Dr. John¬ 
son. 
Hollow your name to the reverberate hills, 
And make the babbling gossip of the air 
Cry out, Olivia. Shalcspeare. 
To REVE'RBERATE, v. a. [ reverbero , Lat.] To 
beat back. 
Nor doth he.know them for aught, 
Till he behold them formed in the applause 
Where they’re extended; which, like an arch, reverberates 
The sound again. Shalcspeare. 
To heat in an intense furnace, where the flame is rever¬ 
berated upon the matter to be melted or cleaned.—Crocus 
martis, that is, steel corroded with vinegar or sulphur, and 
after reverberated with fire, the loadstone will not attract. 
Brown. 
To REVE'RBERATE, v. n. To be driven back; to 
bound back.—The rays of royal majesty reverberated so 
strongly upon Villerio, that they dispelled all clouds. 
Howell.—To resound. 
Start 
An echo with the clamour of thy drum. 
And ev’n at hand a drum is ready brac’d. 
That shall reverberate as loud as thine. Shalcspeare. 
REVERBERATION, s. The act of beating or driving 
back.—The first repetitions follow very thick; for two par¬ 
allel walls beat the sound back on each other, like the seve¬ 
ral reverberations of the same image from two opposite 
looking-glasses. Addison. 
REVE'RBERATORY, adj. Returning; beating back.— 
Good lime may be made of all kinds of flints, but they are 
hard to burn except in a reverberatory kiln. Moxon. 
REVE'RBERATORY, s. A reverberating furnace. Cot- 
grave. 
To REVE'RE, v. a. \r ever cor, Lat.] To reverence; 
to honour; to venerate; to regard with awe. 
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