different between antic vs revel

English

Alternative forms

• antick

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n't?k, IPA^(key): /?æn.t?k/
• Rhymes: -ænt?k

Etymology 1

Probably from Italian antico (“ancient”), used to describe ancient wall paintings from classical times, from Latin antiquus (“venerable”). See also grottesco (“grotesque”). Doublet of antique.

Adjective

antic (comparative more antic, superlative most antic)

1. Playful, funny, absurd
2. (architecture, art) Grotesque, incongruous.
3. (archaic) Grotesque, bizarre
4. Obsolete form of antique.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

antic (plural antics)

1. (architecture, art, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
2. A caricature.
3. (often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.
   • 2007, Jeph Jacques, Time To Add A Cute Kid To The Cast Questionable Content Number 951

     Pintsize: Wait, don’t you want to know why I’m tied up and hanging from the ceiling? / Faye: Not really. Nighty night! / Pintsize: Shit! My wacky antics have jumped the shark!

4. A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.

Translations

Verb

antic (third-person singular simple present antics, present participle anticking, simple past and past participle anticked)

1. (intransitive) To perform antics, to caper.
2. (obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
3. (transitive, rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 70:

     She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements.

Translations

Etymology 2

From anticipation.

Noun

antic (plural antics)

1. (animation) A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989
• antic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• antic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• actin, actin', actin-, cain't, can it

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan antic, from Latin ant?quus (variant ant?cus).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?n?tik/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /an?tik/
• Rhymes: -ik

Adjective

antic (feminine antiga, masculine plural antics, feminine plural antigues)

1. old

Derived terms

Related terms

• antiguitat

See also

• vell

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ant?quus. Compare the inherited antive (from the Latin feminine ant?qua, which influenced the masculine equivalent form antif; compare also the evolution of Spanish antiguo).

Adjective

antic m (oblique and nominative feminine singular antique)

1. ancient; very old

Descendants

• English: antique (borrowing)
• French: antique

See also

• ancien
• viel

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ant?quus (variant ant?cus).

Adjective

antic

1. ancient; very old
   • 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour, Lancan folhon bosc e jarric

     Anc no vitz ome tan antic

     I've never seen a man so old

Descendants

• Catalan: antic
• Occitan: antic

See also

• vielh

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French antique, from Latin antiquus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an.tik/, /an?tik/

Adjective

antic m or n (feminine singular antic?, masculine plural antici, feminine and neuter plural antice)

1. ancient

Declension

Noun

antic m (plural antici)

1. ancient

Declension

See also

• vechi
• demodat
• versat
• vetust

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English revelen, from Old French revel, from reveler (“to be disorderly, to make merry”), from Latin rebello (“to rebel”). Doublet of rebel.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: r?v?-?l, IPA^(key): /???v.?l/
• Rhymes: -?v?l

Noun

revel (plural revels)

1. An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.
   • "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"

2. A kind of dance.
3. A wake for the dead.

Derived terms

• revelry

Translations

Verb

revel (third-person singular simple present revels, present participle revelling or reveling, simple past and past participle revelled or reveled)

1. To make merry; to have a happy, lively time.
   • 1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1744, OCLC 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, OCLC 30776079, page 95:

     If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.

2. To take delight (in something).
   • 1997, The Art of Practicing, a Guide to Making Music from the Heart

     Slowing down doesn't have to feel like holding back. It can be an opportunity to revel in sounds and sensations, to not be so concerned about where we are going but to enjoy the moment and become comfortable where we are.

Synonyms

• (make merry): carouse, celebrate

Derived terms

• reveller/reveler

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin revellere; re- + vellere (“to pluck, pull”).

Verb

revel (third-person singular simple present revels, present participle revelling, simple past and past participle revelled)

1. (obsolete) To draw back; to retract.

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Noun

revel (plural revels)

1. (architecture) Alternative form of reveal

Anagrams

• Lever, elver, lever

Breton

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• reizhel

Adjective

revel

1. sexual

References

• "revel" in TermOfis, Office Public de la Langue Bretonne

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French revel, from reveler.

Alternative forms

• revell, revelle, rewle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?v?l/

Noun

revel (plural reveles)

1. Joyfulness, entertainment, celebration, revelling.
2. A specific instance of revelling or joyfulness.
3. (rare, Late Middle English) Chaos, disorder.

Related terms

• revelen
• revelour
• revelyng

Descendants

• English: revel

References

• “revel, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-16.

Etymology 2

Verb

revel

1. Alternative form of revelen (“to revel”)