Rebel \Reb"el\ (r[e^]b"[e^]l), a. [F. rebelle, fr. L. rebellis.
See Rebel, v. i.]
Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt;
rebellious; as, rebel troops.
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Whoso be rebel to my judgment. --Chaucer.
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Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rebel \Reb"el\, n. [F. rebelle.]
One who rebels.
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Syn: Revolter; insurgent.
Usage: Rebel, Insurgent. Insurgent marks an early, and
rebel a more advanced, stage of opposition to
government. The former rises up against his rulers,
the latter makes war upon them.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rebel \Re*bel"\ (r[-e]*b[e^]l"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rebelled
(r[-e]*b[e^]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Rebelling.] [F. rebeller,
fr. L. rebellare to make war again; pref. re- again + bellare
to make war, fr. bellum war. See Bellicose, and cf. Revel
to carouse.]
1. To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the
ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See
Rebellion.
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The murmur and the churls' rebelling. --Chaucer.
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Ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel
this day against the Lord. --Josh. xxii.
16.
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2. To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or
insubordinate attitude; to revolt.
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How could my hand rebel against my heart?
How could your heart rebel against your reason?
--Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
rebel
adj 1: used by northerners of Confederate soldiers; "the rebel
yell"
2: participating in organized resistance to a constituted
government; "the rebelling confederacy" [syn: rebel(a),
rebelling(a), rebellious]
n 1: `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers
by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War;
`grayback' derived from their gray Confederate uniforms
[syn: Reb, Johnny Reb, Johnny, grayback]
2: a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the
constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving
conditions) [syn: insurgent, insurrectionist, freedom
fighter]
3: someone who exhibits great independence in thought and
action [syn: maverick]
v 1: take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance [syn:
arise, rise, rise up]
2: break with established customs [syn: renegade]
[also: rebelling, rebelled]
WordNet (r) 2.0
138 Moby Thesaurus words for "rebel":
Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist,
Castroite, Charley, Communist, Cong, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobin,
Leninist, Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red, Red Republican,
Roundhead, Sinn Feiner, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong,
Yankee, Yankee Doodle, adversary, agitator, anarch, anarchist,
anarcho-syndicalist, antagonist, antinomian, apostate, arise,
assailant, attacker, bellyacher, bonnet rouge, brawler, breakaway,
challenge, complainant, complainer, crab, crank,
criminal syndicalist, croaker, dare, debunker, defy, disobey,
dissent, dissenter, extreme, extremist, extremistic, factious,
faultfinder, flout, frondeur, griper, grouch, grouser, growler,
grumbler, heretic, iconoclast, insubordinate, insurge, insurgent,
insurrect, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, kicker,
kvetch, malcontent, maverick, mount the barricades, murmurer,
mutineer, mutineering, mutinous, mutiny, mutterer, nihilist,
nonconformist, opponent, overthrow, querulous person, radical,
reactionary, reactionist, rebellious, recusant, red, reluct,
reluctate, resistance fighter, resister, revolt, revolter,
revolute, revolution, revolutional, revolutionary,
revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist, revolutionize,
revolutionizer, riot, rioter, riotous, rise, rise against, rise up,
run riot, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, schismatic, seditionary,
seditious, sorehead, strike, subversive, subvert, syndicalist,
terrorist, traitor, traitorous, treasonable, turbulent, ultraist,
whiner
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish
it.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
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