reviewern.
/rᵻˈvjuːə/, U.S. /rəˈvjuər/, /riˈvjuər/ 1. A person who revises a book, text, etc.; a reviser. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > critical revision of text > one who
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1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Riuisore, a reuisor, a reuiewer.
1710 W. Beveridge Def. Psalms 40 The Composers and Reviewers of the old Translation.
1720 C. Wheatley Illustr. Bk. Common Prayer (ed. 2) ii. §5. 114 This Rubrick..may perhaps have slipt into the present Book thro' the Inadvertency of the Reviewers.
1728 P. F. le Courayer Def. Diss. Validity Eng. Ordinations II. iv. viii. 200 The Reviewers of that Book and of the Liturgy.
1827 T. F. Dibdin Introd. Knowl. Rare Ed. Classics (ed. 4) II. 131 The editor was Thomas Ittigius, a man sufficiently conversant in Jewish antiquities, and an able reviewer of..previous editions of his author.
1918 F. W. Grattan Thomas Chatterton 9 Turns and looks at Thomas with editor's..pompus manner. ‘Ah, Thomas, so you are the one, the reviewer and reviser.’
2. A person who looks back on some period or event. Now rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun] > one who looks back
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reminiscencer1828
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1642 S. Rutherford Peaceable Plea 215 The facultie of Paris, and Church of France, who are still (as saith the Reviewer of the councell of Trent) at daggers drawing wth the Pope and court of Rome.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 517 I am ashamed of nothing more than the Crosse of Christ, as I believe those Reviewers are, whom the Prophet speaketh of, They shall look back on him whom they have peirced.
1889 Overland Monthly Dec. 628/2 These are sequel and episode to Brannan's venture to California, which in themselves constitute matter for the hasty reviewer of events.
1947 R. W. Griswold Prose Writers Amer. 20 But Mr. Bancroft is perhaps too ardent a politician..to be a calm spectator of the present, or an unprejudiced reviewer of the past.
3. A person who reviews something, as a book, play, etc.; a writer of reviews. (Now the most common sense.)In early use denoting the author of a special pamphlet criticizing some other writer or work, but from the late 18th cent. applied to a person who reviews a new or recent book (now also a film, play, product, etc.), typically for a newspaper or periodical.book, novel reviewer, etc.: see the first element.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > review or critique > [noun] > reviewer
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1651 R. Watson Ακολουθος: Second Faire Warning Answer to Ep. Ded. 2 The præjudice the Reviewer would here..cast upon the person of the Bishop will advance his owne reputation but a litle.
1722 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 660 You'll have heard of a printed letter by a Jacobite reviewer..upon my first volume.
1756 T. Gray Let. 23 July in Corr. (1971) II. 466 It has certainly worse nerves than mine, if your Reviewers have frighted it.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 817 Our friends the Reviewers, those Chippers and Hewers.
1811 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 317 Our Reviewers are the genuine Descendents of these palate-sered Taste-dictators.
1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. i. xii. 113 The coteries cried him up and the reviewers adored him.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. xv. 401 Free discussion should not be prevented, either by the ferocity of reviewers or the arm of the law.
1911 Times 30 June 9/5 There is no one to tell a writer he is tiresome except the reviewer, who can only tell him when the mischief is done.
1934 Chicago Tribune 25 Nov. vii. 9/5 Football film fails to score with reviewer.
1994 What PC? Oct. 3/2 At the end of each review you will find a verdict box in which the reviewer sums up the qualities and the shortcomings of the product.
2003 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 13 Apr. xiv. 2/3 ‘The Da Vinci Code’ is brain candy of the highest quality—which is a reviewer's code meaning, ‘Put this [book] on top of your pile.’
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a. A person who evaluates, examines, or assesses something, often with a view to changing it if necessary.
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1826 Acts Gen. Assembly Commonw. Pennsylvania 250 The like fees for their services as are allowed by law to reviewers of public roads and highways.
1841 C. Anthon Classical Dict. at Decemvĭri The commons, finding it in vain to insist upon five of their own body forming part of the reviewers of the laws, yielded the point.
1913 F. H. McLean in San Francisco Relief Surv. ii. iv. 164 The force of investigators, case reviewers, and committee-men had had time to get on a sound working basis.
1988 Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 69 151/2 Serving NSF as a reviewer of proposals, as an advisory panelist, or as a program officer is an important activity.
2001 Nature 1 Mar. 8/3 The scheme will award cash to the departments of researchers who deliver assessment reports on time, suggest alternative reviewers and attend meetings.
b. A person who carries out a peer review.
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1975 World Food & Nutrition Study iv. 33 Some SAES have a pool of well qualified scientists from which a panel of reviewers (frequently three) is selected for each research proposal. In other instances peer reviews are conducted primarily within concerned departments.
1998 S. Fuller in B. Loader Cyberspace Divide (2005) viii. 141 However, in practice (at least as judged by reviewers' reports) relatively little authentication takes place during peer review.
2004 D. Shatz Peer Rev. ii. 36 By the very nature of a review, it has been argued, reviewers tend to focus on negatives, magnifying flaws that they would not be sensitive to were they reading the article in print.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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