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REVERIE

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

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condition of
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mental
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abstraction, a
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fit of musing, a "
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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
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original meaning in Old
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French, of joy, delight, also wildness, anger . The French rever, later resver,
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modern rever, to
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dream, meant originally to wander in speech or thought, and is derived from the
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Lat. rabiare, cf .

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