Word Meanings - COMESSATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A reveling; a rioting. Bp. Hall.

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• REVELLENT
  Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
• RIOTOUS
  1. Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious. The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke xv. 13. 2. Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly
• REVELATION
  1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
• RIOTRY
  The act or practice of rioting; riot. "Electioneering riotry." Walpole.
• REVELATOR
  One who makes a revelation; a revealer.
• RIOTOUR
  A rioter. Chaucer.
• RIOTER
  One who engages in a riot. See Riot, n., 3. (more info) 1. One who riots; a reveler; a roisterer. Chaucer.
• RIOTISE
  Excess; tumult; revelry. His life he led in lawless riotise. Spenser.
• REVELATE
  To reveal. Frith. Barnes.
• REVELRY
  The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling. And pomp and feast and revelry. Milton.
• REVELMENT
  The act of reveling.
• REVELOUS
  Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling. Companionable and revelous was she. Chaucer.
• REVEL
  See REVEAL
• RIOT
  The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object. To run riot, to act wantonly or without restraint. (more info) 1. Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar;
• REVELER
  One who revels. "Moonshine revelers." Shak.
• REVEL-ROUT
  1. Tumultuous festivity; revelry. Rowe. 2. A rabble; a riotous assembly; a mob.
• PATRIOTS' DAY
  A legal holiday in the States of Massachusetts and Maine, April 19, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington in 1775. It was first observed in 1894.
• CYPRIOT
  A native or inhabitant of Cyprus.
• HERIOT
  Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease
• PATRIOTIC
  Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.
• CHARIOTEE
  A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.
• COMPATRIOT
  One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling. The distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America. Palfrey.
• PATRIOT
  One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests. Bp. Hall. Such tears as patriots shaed for dying laws. Pope.
• COPATRIOT
  A joint patriot.
• OVARIOTOMIST
  One who performs, or is skilled in, ovariotomy.