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ic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight studies; midnight gloom. "Midnight shout and revelry." Milton.

especially, thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.

mere principles of reason, improved by consideration and experience, without the help of revelation. Bp. Wilkins.

The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one…

The communications, revelations, or messages delivered by God to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures -- usually in the plural. The first principles of the oracles of God. Heb. v. 12.

ns in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry. As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god, Those priests high orgies held. Drayton.

A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies

Disclosure; discovery; revelation. [Obs.] It was he That made the overture of thy treasons to us. Shak.

Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.

Apt to make unexpected revelations. [Obs.] "Nature is proditorious." Sir H. Wotton.

To drink largely or luxuriously. Twelve days the gods their solemn revels keep, And quaff with blameless Ethiops in the deep. Dryden.

eir religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.

is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. [Written also revel.]

take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to former owner; as, the title or right revels in A after alienation.

Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry. Venus loveth riot and dispense. Chaucer. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Pope.

One who riots; a reveler; a roisterer. Chaucer.

Excess; tumult; revelry. [Obs.] His life he led in lawless riotise. Spenser.

o, a paramour. [Obs.] he [her husband] is no sooner abroad than she is instantly at home, reveling with her ruffians. Bp. Reynolds.

oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion. The fantastic revelries . . . that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile. I. Taylor. She smoothed the ruffled seas. Dryden.

A person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the Christian religion. Suffer not your faith to be shaken by the sophistries of skeptics. S. Clarke.