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An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.
(RQ:Shakespeare Tempest)
(RQ:Chambers Younger Set)"
A kind of dance.
A wake for the dead.
(syn)
1610, (w), ''Pope Joane'', in (w), editor, ''Harleian Miscellany|The Harleian Miscellany(...)'', volume IV, London: Printed for Osborne (publisher)|Thomas Osborne, in Gray's Inn|Gray's-Inn, 1744, (w) 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, ''The Harleian Miscellany(...)'', volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, (w) 30776079, page 95:
- If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away ''with'' worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.
(RQ:Eddison Worm) so they might spend the livelong day as befitteth high holiday, in pleasure and action without care, and thereafter revel in the lofty presence chamber till night grew old with eating and drinking and all delight.
To take delight in|take delight (''in'' something).
{{quote-text|en|year=1997|title=The Art of Practicing, a Guide to Making Music from the Heart
(quote-book)
(alternative form of).
Joyfulness, entertainment, celebration, revelling.
A specific instance of revelling or joyfulness.
Chaos, disorder.
(alt form)