Word Finder - revels

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The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.

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A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.

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The comedian had been telling us about his sleep being disturbed by noise. Then came the reveal: he was sleeping on a bed in a department store.

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(obsolete in the US) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb.

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An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.

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A kind of dance.

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A wake for the dead.

He was persuaded - against his will - to turn his attention to a court life, and he went to London under the patronage of Sir Henry Herbert, master of the revels, to follow that course; but he very soon returned home with a fixed resolve - confirmed by the death of his mother - to study divinity.

But without following the explanation into the details in which it revels, it may be enough to say that the whole hypothesis is but an attempt to exclude the occult conception of action at a distance, and substitute a familiar phenomenon.

So scandalous became the popular revels associated with it, that the celebration was prohibited by the church in the 15th century.

The lower classes, bullied by sabbatarianism and deprived of the old revels, were restive and hostile; but the educated middle class was with the preachers; so were many lesser country gentry; and the nobles, securing the spoils of the church, were acquiescent.

He flourished about 625 B.C. Several of the ancients ascribe to him the invention of the dithyramb and of dithyrambic poetry; it is probable, however, that his real service was confined to the organization of that verse, and the conversion of it from a mere drunken song, used in the Dionysiac revels, to a measured antistrophic hymn, sung by a trained body of performers.

In all the emperor was a prominent figure, but these revels at least involved no bloodshed, and were civilized compared with the gladiatorial shows.

Meanwhile, Nero had reluctantly left Greece, but returned to Italy only to renew his revels.

It had occasionally been used as a royal residence, and was the scene, in November 1285, of the revels held in celebration of the marriage (solemnized in the abbey) of Alexander III.

There was free scope given for the indulgence of that political imagination which revels in revolution and chafes at prescriptive bondage.

Harrison and others identify them with the Satyri (Satyrs), the attendants and companions of Dionysus in his revels, and also with the Centaurs.

The two following years, during which he lived at Dorset Court in London, were memorable for the publication of his two chief works on social polity, and of the epoch-making book on modern philosophy which revels the main principles of his life.

It revels in its schmaltz and is shamelessly Populist.

Green's characters are thinkers and the film revels in charting the intricacies of their mental and emotional development.

There he revels in the status of an intellectual Titan.

It is difficult to decide whether words of the early biographers imply that his youth was not free from irregularities; in any case, he was the recognized leader of the young men of the town in their revels; he was, however, always conspicuous for his charity to the poor.

To the north-east, at about the same distance from the town, are the tiny château and park of Tiefurt, on the banks of the Ilm, the scene of many pastoral court revels in the past.

And the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures and advantages of service under members of the Imperial family.

Ah, my revels here are over.

Green 's characters are thinkers and the film revels in charting the intricacies of their mental and emotional development.

It can also be used to reference a particular lifestyle choice, where the individual revels in the excesses of spending and enjoys the advantages of an "over the top" lifestyle.

Experience proves, however, that it revels in cool rich loam and leaf soil, and flowers profusely when with these are associated broken sandstone, over which the rhizomes creep and flower.

The peony revels in the deepest and richest of soils, and once well planted is good for a dozen years without disturbance.

It does well in pots, revels in chalky loams, and even in an unfavourable position in clay.

Capricorn is an ardent and enthusiastic lover who revels in all things sensual, but he rarely takes himself too seriously in this department.

One cheerleader integrates Spanish into her intro, reveling in her Hispanic heritage, and another cheerleader who is more voluptuously built than the others revels that ". . .when I shake it, it's like an earthquake."

But the show's star, selfish egotist Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen) revels in the attention and adoration showered on his character Commander Peter Quincy Taggart.

In contrast with the drunken revels of the Greeks, Philo describes the sober enjoyment by the Therapeutae of the feast of Pentecost, or rather of the eve of that festival.

Yet the horrors which it wrought hardly checked the magnificent revels of Edward's court, and neither the plague nor the truce stayed the course of the French war, though what fighting there was was indecisive and on a small scale.

To the north-east, at about the same distance from the town, are the tiny château and park of Tiefurt, on the banks of the Ilm, the scene of many pastoral court revels in the past.

May-day revels are still kept up here and attract large crowds from the neighbourhood.

He published in 1910 The Prevention of Malaria, and also produced Psychologies, a volume of poems (1919), and a romance, The Revels of Orsera (1920).

Again, origins attract the litterateur; he revels in describing the transition from the pre-religious to the religious era.

There he revels in the status of an intellectual titan.