revelous

revelous

English

Etymology

Old French reveleus.

Adjective

revelous (comparative more revelous, superlative most revelous)

1. (obsolete) Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or revel.

   Compaignable and revelous was she. — Chaucer.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for revelous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)