Revel, vb. 1) to feast, to make merry: Lucr. Arg. Per. II, 3, 93 Ado I, 1, 322. Mids. I, 1, 19. Shr. III, 2, 226. H4B IV, 5, 126. H5 I, 2, 253. Rom. III, 4, 26. Caes. II, 2, 116. With a superfluous it: “r. and feast it at my house,” Err. IV, 4, 65. “and r. it as bravely as the best,” Shr. IV, 3, 54. H6C III, 3, 225. IV, 1, 95.
2) to indulge one's inclination or caprice, to wanton, to do at pleasure: there it (desire) “--s,” Lucr. 713. “who all this while hath --ed in the night,” R2 III, 2, 48. “--ing like lords till all be gone,” H6B I, 1, 224. “--ed in our parliament,” H6C I, 4, 71. “his father --ed in the heart of France,” II, 2, 150. “to r. in the entrails of my lambs,” R3 IV, 4, 228. “and r. all with him,” Cor. IV, 5, 227. “and r. in Lavinia's treasury,” Tit. II, 1, 131. “where joy most --s,” Hml. III, 2, 208.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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