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▪ I. reverie, n.|ˈrɛvərɪ, ˈrɛvəriː|
Forms: 4–5 reuerye, 5 -errye, -eri, 6 -ery; 5–6 reu-, reveray; 7– reverie, 8 réverie, rêverie, 8–9 revery; also 7–8 resuerie (8 resuery), resverie, -very (7 -fery).
[In early use a. OF. reverie rejoicing, revelry, wantonness, wildness, rage, f. rever to revel, act or speak wildly: cf. rave v.1 In 17th c. readopted from the later F. forms resverie, rêverie.
The fully Anglicized form revery is comparatively rare.]
†1.
a. A state of joy or delight. Obs. rare—1.
The French text in Méon's ed. has reverdie, employed in an unusual sense, for which Chaucer may have read or substituted the more usual reverie.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 720 The swetnesse of her melodye Made al myne herte in reuerye [Thynne reuelrye].
†b. Wantonness; wildness. Obs. rare.
c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 85 And oonly for hire myrthe and reuerye Vp on the wardeyn bisily they crye. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 370 Into Scotland thair wes richt mony lordis, Ȝoung and wantoun, and full of reuery.
†c. A state of anger or irritation. Obs. rare.
1481Caxton Godfrey xxiv. 57 They had a Capytayne..whiche brought them in suche reuerye [F. enrederie] and murmur that they spake largely and rudely ayenst the knyghtes. Ibid. cxvi. 174 Therle of tholouse, whiche, in a reuerrye wheryn he was, sayde that he wold not acquyte his part, ne gyue it ouer to noman lyuyng.
2.
†a. Violent or rude language. Obs. rare.
c1400Destr. Troy 7651 Ephistafus hym presit with his proude wordes, As a ribold with reueray, in his Roide speche. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 14255 He at him hadde gret dispit For his wordes & his reueri Bothe of falsnes & losengeri That he on him bare.
†b. Sc. Noise, din. Obs. rare.
1513Douglas æneis x. vii. 117 Than he..Behaldis quhou that the low dois mak deray, Blesand and crakand with a nice reuery. Ibid. xi. xiii. 32 The wemen rowtis baldly to the assay, With felloun bruyt, gret reveray, and deray.
c. Sc. A report or rumour. rare.
1787W. Taylor Sc. Poems 59 This rev'rie spread about the Cummer. 1867W. Gregor Banffsh. Gloss. 143.
3. A fantastic, fanciful, unpractical, or purely theoretical idea or notion.
α1653D. Osborne Lett. xxiii [xxvi], It may bee I dreampt it.., or Else it was one of the Resuery's of my Ague. a1687Petty Pol. Arith. (1690) 65, I indeed desire Men to look upon [this] rather as a Dream or Resvery than a rational Proposition. 1710Palmer Proverbs 325 The most Ridiculous Bigot thinks himself in the Right, and..Believes his Resveries acceptable to God. 1759S. Fielding C'tess of Dellwyn II. 29 The Moral of the Play seems to be..that the most frantic Resverie is the highest Virtue.
β1758Chesterfield Lett. cccxlviii. (1792) IV. 156 This rêverie of mine, I hope, will be tried, and I wish it may succeed. 1774J. Bryant Mythol. I. 453 Some of them..have rendered their works..little better than the reveries of Monsr. Voltaire. 1802Playfair Huttonian The. 480 The author of this strange and inconsistent reverie is, nevertheless, an excellent observer. 1841Brewster Mart. Sci. 143 Tycho delivered a course of lectures, in which he..defended and explained all the reveries of astrology.
4. A fit of abstracted musing; a ‘brown study’ or day-dream.
α1657J. Davies tr. Voiture's Lett. I. 3, I am to learn whether the resueries of a soul so Elevated as yours is, are not too serious..to descend to any reflection on me. 1668H. More Div. Dial. I. Publ. to Rdr., Men..obnoxious to Raptures and exalted Resveries. 1709Mrs. Manley Secret Mem. 121 Seeing her Cousin had left crying, and was fall'n into a profound Resuery. 1759S. Fielding C'tess of Dellwyn I. 268 At last a Petit-maitre, after having been in a long Resverie, crosses the Circle, and throws all into Confusion.
β1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope (1738) I. 165 Their Drone of a Father, who lies stretch'd at his Ease in a profound Reverie. 1753–4Richardson Grandison (1781) VI. 28, I was sometimes ready to doubt whether I were not in a reverie. 1781Cowper Retirem. 637 But reveries..Attain not to the dignity of thought. 1820Irving Sketch Bk. I. 145 Walking about in a sad reverie,..unconscious of the world around her. 1871Blackie Phases Mor. i. 14 Whether he would remain all night standing in that reverie.
b. With possessive pron.
α1711Shaftesbury Charact. I. 162 If their Meditation and Resvery be obstructed by the fear of a nonconforming meen in Conversation. 1753–4Richardson Grandison V. 174 She never hinted at marriage in her resveries.
β1714Pope Lett. (1735) I. *221 My Réverie has been so deep, that I have scarce had an Interval to think myself uneasy. 1778F. Burney Evelina lx, I started from my reverie. 1820H. Matthews Diary Invalid 235, I endeavoured in vain to rouse him from his revery. 1853C. Brontë Villette vi, In my reverie, methought I saw the continent of Europe..far away.
c. Mus. An instrumental composition suggestive of a dreamy or musing state.
1880Miss Ritter tr. Schumann's Music & M. 527 There is only one number among the reveries in which the composer has nearly refrained altogether from any mixture of virtuoso accessories.
5. The fact, state, or condition of being lost in thought or engaged in musing. Also personif.
1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xix. (1695) 119 When Ideas float in our mind, without any Reflection or regard of the Understanding, it is that which the French call Resvery; our Language has scarce a name for it. 1755Grainger Solitude iii. 7 Rapt earth-gazing Resvery, Blushing artless..Modesty, Seek the solitary Wild. 1762Ann. Reg. ii. 19 His fits of reverie were..frequent. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian i, He was lost in reverie on this subject. 1813Scott Rokeby vi. xi, Mark with what flights Of wilder'd reverie he writes. 1889Moll Hypnotism iv. (1890) 193 There is often reverie independent of the will.
▪ II. reverie, v. intr.
To indulge in reveries; trans., to contemplate or recall with relish or enjoyment.
1880Havergal Mem. vii. 98, I used to reverie about them. 1961B. Malamud New Life 315 He reveried accomplishment..foresaw an effective if..short career. 1980P. Van Greenaway Dissident viii. 168 He reveried on. |
