▪ I. reveal, n.1 rare.
(rɪˈviːl)
[f. reveal v.]
A revealing, revelation, disclosure.
| 1629 Wadsworth Pilgr. iii. 22 He vtterly disclaimed their superstitious reueales. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 195 In nature the concealment of secret parts is the same in both sexes and the shame of their reveale equall. 1858 Bailey Age 41 Faith her first law, knowledge her last reveal. |
▪ II. reveal, n.2
(rɪˈviːl)
Also 7 revale, 9 revel(e.
[f. revale v. Cf. also revailed a.]
A side of an opening or recess which is at right angles to the face of the work; esp. the vertical side of a doorway or window-opening between the door- or window-frame and the arris.
| 1688 Holme Armoury iii. 394/2 Of two other sorts of Moulds..the second is a square with a swelling Frize and revale. 1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 593 In the clear of the reveals on the outside. 1845 G. Petrie Round Towers Irel. ii. iii. 236 The reveal, which divides the outer compound archway, from the inner one. 1881 Young Every Man his own Mech. §1384 Any recess in the wall where the two surfaces of the wall and the reveal meet at right angles. |
| attrib. 1838 Loudon's Archit. Mag. V. 580 A variety of other bricks,..such as bat-headers, closers, reveal-headers. |
▪ III. reveal, v.
(rɪˈviːl)
Forms: 4–6 reuele, 5 Sc. rewele, 5–7 revele; 5 Sc. reweil, 6 Sc. reu-, reveil(l; 6 rea-, 6–7 reueal(e, reveale, 6– reveal.
[ad. OF. reveler (14th c., mod.F. révéler, = Sp. and It. revelar, It. re-, rivelare), or L. revēlāre, f. re- re- 2 d + vēlum veil. See also reveil v.]
1. trans. To disclose, make known (to one) in a supernatural manner.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxxvii. (Vincent) 378 Bot son in til a vysione reuelit it wes til a matrone. c 1450 Myrr. our Ladye 18 Myn angel that shall reuele & endyte vnto the the legende that shall be redde. 1483 Caxton G. de la Tour c ij b, There it was shewed and reueled to hym that she shold be saued. 1574 tr. Marlorat's Apocalips 3 Although these two kyndes of reuealing haue ben very rare since the tyme that Christ was reueled. 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. i. vii. §4 A matter revealed and prefigured unto Domitian in a dream. 1671 Milton Samson 29 O wherefore was my birth..from some great act Or benefit reveal'd to Abraham's race? 1781 Cowper Expost. 236 The plan That truth and mercy had reveal'd to man. 1865 R. W. Dale Jew. Temp. xviii. (1877) 206 The Spirit revealed Divine truth by inspired prophets. 1875 Manning Mission H. Ghost iii. 71 God has revealed the fact that He made the heaven and the earth. |
2. To disclose, divulge, make known (to one) by discourse or communication. † Also absol.
| c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. v. xi. 2919 Þai walde þar mwrmur Reweil til hym. 1508 Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 43 Reueill gif ȝe rewit that rakles conditioun? 1540 Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) II. 266 A mattyer of gret Secresye which I dyde Reaueale. 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. ix. 8, I will revele what ye so much desire. 1617 Moryson Itin. i. 16 A Bishop, who being the Queenes Confessour, was cast into Molda because he would not reueale her confession to her husband. 1671 Milton Samson 383 Did not she..reveal The secret wrested from me? 1725 De Foe Voy. round World 47 They would not..reveal to me all the Particulars of the Conspiracy. 1784 New Spectator No. 15. 6 His attendance gave birth to a passion which he dared not to reveal. 1856 Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 126 Wolsey has revealed to us fully his own objects in a letter. 1880 L. Stephen Pope vi. 138 Having no character to lose, he could reveal his own practices without a blush. |
| absol. 1671 Milton Samson 782 But I to enemies reveal'd, and should not. 1837 H. Martineau Soc. in Amer. III. 167 A dozen boys and girls..crowded round me, questioning,..speculating, revealing in a way which enchanted me. |
† b. To betray. Obs. rare.
| 1640 Yorke Union Hon. 92 A servant of his, by whom..hee was revealed and there taken and beheaded. 1657 May Life Sat. Puppy 22 Crying blood, blood! the Villain will reveal us, the Villain will reveal us. |
3. To display, show, make clear or visible, exhibit. (Also with complement.)
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxxvii. 37 Or Phebus dirknes him Goddis Sone reveild. 1590 Spenser F.Q. iii. ii. 48 Earely, the morrow next, before that day His joyous face did to the world revele. 1605 Rowlands Hell's Broke Loose (Hunterian Cl.) 26 Our inward loue, let outward deedes reueale it. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 432 When the Golden Spring reveals the Year. 1738 Gray Propertius ii. 9 If the thin Coan Web her shape reveal. 1781 J. Logan in Scott. Paraph. ix. 4 Nature's universal frame its Maker's power reveals. 1832 Tennyson Œnone 12 The gorges, opening wide apart, reveal Troas and Ilion's column'd citadel. 1866 G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. i, An infinite love, revealed in the mystery of man. 1876 Mozley Univ. Serm. 64 The evening light reveals the real landscape, though it may reveal it dimly. |
b. refl.
| 1494 in Househ. Ord. (1790) 116 The chamberlaine to see that he reveale himselfe at all tymes. 1591 Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. ii. 83 In compleat Glory shee reueal'd her selfe. 1603 ― Meas. for M. v. i. 28 Here is Lord Angelo.., Reueele your selfe to him. 1833 Tennyson Eleänore 2 Thy dark eyes open'd not, Nor first reveal'd themselves to English air. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. ii. 13 A position where the mechanical conditions of the glacier revealed themselves. 1894 A. Morrison M. Hewitt, Investigator iv, I'll tell you exactly how the thing revealed itself to me. |