Definition of Reveile
Re*veil"le (?), n. [F.
réveil, fr. réveiller to awake; pref.
re- re- + pref. es- (L. ex) + veiller to
awake, watch, L. vigilare to watch. The English form was prob.
taken by mistake from the French imper.
réveillez,2d pers. pl. See Vigil.]
(Mil.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of
day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for
the sentinels to forbear challenging. "Sound a reveille."
Dryden.
For at dawning to assail ye
Here no bugles sound reveille. Sir W.
Scott.
Re*veil"le (?), n. [F.
réveil, fr. réveiller to awake; pref.
re- re- + pref. es- (L. ex) + veiller to
awake, watch, L. vigilare to watch. The English form was prob.
taken by mistake from the French imper.
réveillez,2d pers. pl. See Vigil.]
(Mil.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of
day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for
the sentinels to forbear challenging. "Sound a reveille."
Dryden.
For at dawning to assail ye
Here no bugles sound reveille. Sir W.
Scott.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields
no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted. In the
American army it is ingeniously called "rev-e-lee," and to that
pronunciation our countrymen have pledged their lives, their
misfortunes and their sacred dishonor.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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