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Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.

Vengeance; revenge. [Obs.]

Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak.

Unrevenged. [Obs.] Marston.

Revenge. [Obs.] He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.

One who revenges. Shak.

Executing revenge; revengeful. -- Re*ven"ging*ly, adv. Shak.

, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income. Do not anticipate your revenues and live upon air till you know what you are worth. Gray.

To echo. [Obs.] Shak.

Having the quality of reverberation; reverberating.

Reverberant. [Obs.] "The reverberate hills." Shak.

The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing 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. This reverberative influence is that which we have intended above, as the influence of the mass upon its centers. I. Taylor.

One who, or that which, produces reverberation.

Producing reverberation; acting by reverberation; reverberative. Reverberatory furnace. See the Note under Furnace.

To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.

To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe or fear; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation. Marcus Aurelius, whom he rather revered as his father than treated as his partner in the empire. Addison.

esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration. If thou be poor, farewell thy reverence. Chaucer. Reverence, which is the synthesis of love and fear. Coleridge. When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the re…

One who regards with reverence. "Reverencers of crowned heads." Swift.

Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable. A reverend sire among them came. Milton. They must give good example and reverend deportment in the face of their children. Jer. Taylor.