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revictual, v.|riːˈvɪt(ə)l|
Forms: α. 6 revitaille, revi-, reui-, reuytayle; revittell, 6–7 revittle. β. 6–7 reuictual, revictuall, 7– revictual.
[f. re- 5 a + victual v.]
1. trans. To supply (a place, fleet, etc.) with a fresh stock of provisions. Also refl.
α1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxlii. 356 Perauenture ther be some that are comynge to reuitayle y⊇ castell. 1543State Papers IX. 437 The Prynce wyth his armye, havyng revytayled Heynsborgh,..are retorned home. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1402/1 When sir Richard Greenefield had..reuittelled himselfe, and laden his ships with horsses.
β1579Fenton Guicciard. (1618) 246 [He] reuictualled Pisa continually with a Gallion and other Brigandines. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 1188 Having revictualled Buda, his purpose was for this yere to returne. 1693Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 172 Orders are sent to the admiralls..to revictuall the smaller ships. 1750Carte Hist. Eng. II. 722 The siege lasted several months; the place being revictualled, and the garrison relieved five different times. 1813Sir R. Wilson Priv. Diary (1862) II. 139, I would sweep through Berlin, revictual the fortresses, and return via Magdeburg. 1861Goldw. Smith Lect. Mod. Hist. iv. 16 This colony did not, like Virginia, require to be refounded, not even to be re-victualled. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 107 The Roman fleet after it had been revictualled and repaired, stood right across the Mediterranean.
2. absol. To procure or take in a fresh supply of provisions.
1618Raleigh Let. in Rem. (1661) 236 You shall hear from me..from the New-found Land, where I mean to make clean my Ships and revictual. 1656Milton Lett. State Wks. 1851 VIII. 351 In regard he had design'd to revittle in Portugal, from whence he was driven by contrary Winds. 1721Lond. Gaz. No. 6000/2 A Frigate..is arrived at the Texel..to revictual. 1849–50Alison Hist. Europe VII. xlii. §39. 120 He watered and revictualled at Bahia. 1870Daily News 25 Oct., An invading army..is therefore greatly harassed and cannot easily revictual.
Hence reˈvictualling vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also reˈvictualment.
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clxix. 195 It was fournysshed with vytayles to haue been kepte seuen yere without any reuytaylynge. 1602Carew Cornwall 236 No small quantitie for the revitailing of weather-driuen shippes. 1870Pall Mall G. 7 Nov. 8 The Provisional Government made the revictualling of Paris..a sine quâ non. 1870Observer 13 Nov., In return for the privilege of revictualment, the French authorities offered no kind of equivalent. |