Verb:

अति आनन्द लेना, कोलाहल सहित खाना पीना, मद्यपान का उत्सव मनाना, आनंद लेना,

revels's Usage Examples:

In all the emperor was a prominent figure, but these revels at least involved no bloodshed, and were civilized compared with the gladiatorial shows.

He flourished about 625 B.C. Several of the ancients ascribe to him the invention of the dithyramb and of dithyrambic poetry; it is probable, however, that his real service was confined to the organization of that verse, and the conversion of it from a mere drunken song, used in the Dionysiac revels, to a measured antistrophic hymn, sung by a trained body of performers.

The lower classes, bullied by sabbatarianism and deprived of the old revels, were restive and hostile; but the educated middle class was with the preachers; so were many lesser country gentry; and the nobles, securing the spoils of the church, were acquiescent.

So scandalous became the popular revels associated with it, that the celebration was prohibited by the church in the 15th century.

But without following the explanation into the details in which it revels, it may be enough to say that the whole hypothesis is but an attempt to exclude the occult conception of action at a distance, and substitute a familiar phenomenon.

He was persuaded - against his will - to turn his attention to a court life, and he went to London under the patronage of Sir Henry Herbert, master of the revels, to follow that course; but he very soon returned home with a fixed resolve - confirmed by the death of his mother - to study divinity.

He published in 1910 The Prevention of Malaria, and also produced Psychologies, a volume of poems (1919), and a romance, The Revels of Orsera (1920).

Again, origins attract the litterateur; he revels in describing the transition from the pre-religious to the religious era.

May-day revels are still kept up here and attract large crowds from the neighbourhood.

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Synonyms:

delight, have a good time, expend, enjoy, live it up, use, wallow, have a ball,

Antonyms:

order, defend, rich, success, repair,