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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 224 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REVERIE , a See also:

condition of See also:mental See also:abstraction, a See also:fit of musing, a " See also:brown study " (" brown " in the sense of "gloomy," and not to be referred to Germ. Braune, brow). The word appears in the 14th or 15th centuries in its See also:original meaning in Old See also:French, of joy, delight, also wildness, anger. The French rever, later resver, See also:modern rever, to See also:dream, meant originally to wander in speech or thought, and is derived from the See also:Lat. rabiare, cf.

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