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▪ I. revise, n.|rɪˈvaɪz|
Also 6 re-vise, 7 reuize.
[f. the vb.]
†1. The fact of being seen again. Obs.—1
1589Warner Alb. Eng. (1602) Prose Addit. 341 Of the drowning and Reuise of Palinurus..I omit.
2. a. The act of revising or reviewing; a revision, a looking over or examining again.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. i. 487 We should not heedless-hastily bestow us In any Work, but patiently proceed With oft re-vises. 1615Jackson Creed v. x. Wks. IV. 84 The reflexed apprehension or revise..by which their examination should be tried. 1692R. L'Estrange Josephus, Antiq. ii. (1733) 306 They came to this Resolution, that the Book might be subjected to a careful Examination and Revise. 1710Acc. Distemper Tom Whigg ii. 50 Let it be the frequent Subject of your Revise and Meditation. 1811Gifford in M. Napier's Sel. Corr. (1879) 4, I am greatly pleased with your additions, and indeed with the whole of your revise. 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xxi. (ed. 3) 209 The corrections have been unusually large, and the revises frequent.
b. A revised version or form.
1844Dickens Let. 29 June (1977) IV. 153 Mr. Dickens will be glad if Mr. Newby will send a complete revise of the whole book..to Mr. Overs for his attentive perusal. 1875A. Thackeray Let. in H. Ritchie Lett. A. T. Ritchie (1924) viii. 163 Mr. Payn writes sternly for the revise for my story and I must not write any more now. 1894Current Hist. IV. 283 Shortly after the revise of the Wilson bill came up..in the Senate on April 2. 1970W. Garner Puppet-Masters xxxvi. 259 Here's the revise. We had it retyped with the new ending.
3. Typog. A revised or corrected form of proof-sheet; a further proof submitted by the printer after having made the required corrections, alterations, or additions. Also attrib.
1612T. James Corrupt. Scripture iii. 24 There was no sheete printed off, before either the proofe, or the reuize (as they call it) was brought vnto him. 1644Prynne & Walker Fiennes' Trial 56 When he read the printed proofe and revise. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xvii. 264 After the Second or Third Proof he has a Revise, which is also a Proof-sheet. 1753Richardson Grandison VI. 417 He had hardly..composed any other Copy but first proofs, revises, &c., clandestinely obtained from England. 1778Johnson in Boswell II. 345 Let me have the revises as soon as can be. 1816Scott Antiq. xi, [He] pulled off the first proof as clear and free from errors, as if it had been a triple revise! 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 338 The revise of the last sheet was sent to printer. 1892A. Oldfield Man. Typog. iii, When all the corrections have been made a Revise Proof will have to be pulled and submitted to the reader. 1972H. Evans Newsman's English i. 8 The copy is normally passed to a third executive, the ‘revise editor’. On American dailies he is a ‘slot man’.
▪ II. revise, v.|rɪˈvaɪz|
[a. F. reviser (also réviser), f. re- re- + viser to look at, aim:—pop. L. *vīsāre. Cf. advise, devise, and L. revīsĕre.]
†1. intr. To look again or repeatedly at, to look back or meditate on, something. Obs.
1567Reception of Q. Eliz. at Cambridge (Harl. MSS. 7037), The Queen following..and marvellously revising at the beauty of the chapel. 1627Lever Q. Eliz. Teares ix, Waking, or not, I oft reuise thereon. a1640Jackson Creed x. xxxi. Wks. IX. 217 Surely the thoughts of a mere natural, civil or moral man are free..and able to revise and work upon these occurrences.
†2. trans. To see or behold, to look at, again.
a1618Sylvester Job Triumphant ii. 305 Th' Eye that hath seen him, shall not see him twise, Nor shall his Places him againe revise. 1687Beverley Exposition Song of Songs 66 So long forgotten, I by Love revis'd Would now from future Forfeiture Fore-pris'd, Stand sealed. 1727Foxton in Earbery Burnet's St. Dead App. 75 If any doubt it they may revise what we have there written. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 63 She reserves this..for her own..inspection; to revise it, to gaze and dwell upon it in secret.
3. a. To look or read carefully over, with a view to improving or correcting.
1611Bible Transl. Pref. ⁋14 Neither did we disdaine to reuise that which we had done. 1693Freke Sel. Ess. Apol. 3 What I have done of late has been only to Correct and Revise them [sc. essays] a little for the Press. 1743Pope Let. to Warburton 12 Jan., Whatever very little respites I have had..have been employed in revising the papers on the use of Riches. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. Pref. xii, Upon the decease of Mr. Leske, it was revised, corrected, and enlarged, by Mr. Karsten. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. iii. 30 The King carefully revised the papers which he commanded others to write. 1847De Quincey Sp. Mil. Nun viii. Wks. 1853 III. 16 Pussy, however, saw no use in revising and correcting the text of papa's remembrances.
absol.1749Fielding Tom Jones xv. xi, I am prevented from revising;—Perhaps I have said more than I meant.
b. To go over again, to re-examine, in order to improve or amend; † to condense by revision.
1596Bacon Max. & Use Com. Law (1630) Ep. Ded. 2 To revise the Romane lawes from infinite volumes..into one competent and uniforme corps of law. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 120 That they would be pleased in the forementioned particulars to revise the Directory. 1764Burn Poor Laws 274 There is great reason to revise the game laws, and to reduce them into some order and compass. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 67 A commission sometimes granted..to revise the sentence of the court of delegates. 1819J. Marshall Const. Opin. (1839) 189 The opinion of the highest law tribunal of the state is to be revised. 1847Power Law Qualif. & Registr. 113 Every revising barrister is required to notify his appointment to the clerk of the peace of the county..which he has been appointed to revise. 1876Holland Sev. Oaks xi, People began to revise their judgments of the man whom they had..condemned. 1939N. Marsh Overture to Death v. 57 Then he gave himself four minutes to revise the conversation he had planned to have with Dinah.
c. To go over (a subject already learnt) in preparation for an examination. Also absol.
1946‘B. Truscot’ First Year at University v. 66 Assuming the examination to be in May or June,..[the Easter] vacation should..be devoted to revision, and the work to be revised must be systematically divided up among the time available. 1977C. Dexter Silent World N. Quinn xii. 109 You revise, I suppose?.. I mustn't keep you from your revising.
Hence reˈvised ppl. a.
Revised Version, the version of the Bible made in 1870–84 as ‘a Revision of the Translation published in..1611, and commonly known by the name of the Authorised Version’.
1837Lockhart Scott II. vi. 223, I suspect this had been a revised edition. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 159 There might be a revised liturgy which should not exclude extemporaneous prayer. 1880N.T. (Revised Version) Pref., We forwarded to them the Revised Version in its final form. |