Rebel

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  REBEL, n.  A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish
  it.