Definition of "revenge"

“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company

The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.

1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]

to revenge the death of our fathers

1814, Lord Berners, The Ancient Chronicles of Sir John Froissart

However, my veneration for that illustrious man was so great, that on the night when he died, I revenged him finely on his two principal enemies.

c. 1840, Leigh Hunt, The Seer; Or, Common-places Refreshed

Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.

1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iii]

a bird that will revenge upon you all

c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iv]

Count it not hard henceforth, when thou dost hear That a just vengeance was by righteous court Justly reveng'd. […]

1814, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in H[enry] F[rancis] Cary, transl., The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. [...] In Three Volumes, volume III (Paradise), London: […] [J. Barfield] for Taylor and Hessey, […], page 30, lines 45–47