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Revolt
v. t.
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To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
Revolt
v. t.
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To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.
Revolt
n.
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The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.
Revolt
n.
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A revolter.
Revolter
n.
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One who revolts.
Revolting
a.
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Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty.
Revoluble
a.
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Capable of revolving; rotatory; revolving.
Revolute
a.
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Rolled backward or downward.
Revolution
n.
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The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.
Revolution
n.
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Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.
Revolution
n.
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The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time, or by a succession of similar events.
Revolution
n.
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The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according as the point of return or completion has a fixed relation to the year, the anomaly, the nodes, the stars, or the tropics; as, the revolution of the earth about the sun; the revolution of the moon about the earth.
Revolution
n.
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The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere.
Revolution
n.
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A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.
Revolution
n.
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A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another, by the governed.
Revolutionary
a.
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Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.
Revolutionary
n.
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A revolutionist.
Revolutioner
n.
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One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist.
Revolutionism
n.
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The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.
Revolutionist
n.
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One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution.
Revolutioniezed
imp. & p. p.
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of Revolutionize
Revolutionizing
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Revolutionize
Revolutionize
v. t.
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To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government.
Revolutive
a.
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Inclined to revolve things in the mind; meditative.
Revolvable
a.
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That may be revolved.
Revolved
imp. & p. p.
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of Revolve
Revolving
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Revolve
Revolve
v. i.
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To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.
Revolve
v. i.
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To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun.
Revolve
v. i.
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To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve.