The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.
One who makes a revelation; a revealer.
One who revels.
Causing revulsion; revulsive. A revulsive medicine.
The act of reveling.
Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling.
The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.
To reclaim; to demand the restoration of.
The act of revendicating.
The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong.
Vengeance; revenge.
Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge.
Unrevenged.
Revenge.
One who revenges.
Executing revenge; revengeful.
That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.
To echo.
Having the quality of reverberation; reverberating.
To resound; to echo.
The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace.
Of the nature of reverberation; tending to reverberate; reflective.
One who, or that which, produces reverberation.
A reverberatory furnace.
To cover again with verdure.
To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe or fear; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation.
To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate.
One who regards with reverence.
Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.
Reverently.
Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples.
Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe.
In a reverential manner.
In a reverent manner; in respectful regard.
One who reveres.
A part turned or folded back so as to show the inside, or a piece put on in imitation of such a part, as the lapel of a coat.
The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.
To return; to revert.
Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell.
In a reversed way.
Irreversible.
In a reverse manner; on the other hand; on the opposite.
One who reverses.
The quality of being reversible.
Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence.
In a reversible manner.
Serving to effect reversal, as of motion; capable of being reversed.
The act of returning, or coming back; return.
That which is to be received in reversion.
One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated.
A certain game at cards.
One who, or that which, reverts.
Turned back; reversed. Specifically: (Her.) Bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S.
A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system.
One who, or that which, reverts.
Capable of, or admitting of, reverting or being reverted; as, a revertible estate.
Reverting, or tending to revert; returning.
Same as Reverie.
A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream.
To take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to former owner; as, the title or right revests in A after alienation.
The apartment, in a church or temple, where the vestments, etc., are kept; -- now contracted into vestry.
Same as Revestiary.
Vesture.
To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.
A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall.
To vibrate back or in return.
To reconquer.
Return to life.
To victual again.
To exceed an adversary's wager in card playing.
A second or repeated view; a reexamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life.
Capable of being reviewed.
A review.
One who reviews or reexamines; an inspector; one who examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books.
To give new vigor to.
Reproach; reviling.
The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse.
One who reviles.
Uttering reproaches; containing reproaches.
To overcome; to refute, as error.
To vindicate again; to reclaim; to demand and take back.
A growing green or fresh again; renewal of youth or vigor.
That may be revised.
The act of revising, or reviewing and reexamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty.
A review; a revision.
One who revises.
The act of revising; reexamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.
Of or pertaining to revision; revisory.
To visit again.
The act of revisiting.
Having the power or purpose to revise; revising.
To restore vitality to; to bring back to life.
That may be revived.
The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature. Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature. Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest. Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like. Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture. Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion. Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc. Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.
The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.
A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively.
Pertaining to revivals.
To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
Revival.
One who, or that which, revives.
To revive; to recall or restore to life.
Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recalling, or the state of being recalled, to life.
To cause to revive.
Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating.
The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life.
Able or disposed to revive; reviving.
Revival of a suit which is abated by the death or marriage of any of the parties, -- done by a bill of revivor.
The quality of being revocable; as, the revocability of a law.
Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant.
To recall; to call back.
The act of calling back, or the state of being recalled; recall.
Of or pertaining to revocation; tending to, or involving, a revocation; revoking; recalling.
To refurnish with a voice; to refit, as an organ pipe, so as to restore its tone.
The act of revoking.
Revocation.
One who revokes.
By way of revocation.
The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.
One who revolts.
Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty.