单词 | revisitation |
释义 | revisitationn.ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > again revisitation1549 review1652 revision1796 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > re-examination > [noun] revisitation1549 revisal1612 reinspection1697 reinvestigation1772 rechecking1854 revetting1940 1549 Sir W. Paget in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. 258 We thought best to put you in mind of the confirmation and revisitation of the treaty. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Revisitation, a reuisitation; or..a reuising, reuiewing, recognizing,..overlooking againe. 2. The action or an act of revisiting; the fact of being revisited; a second or further visitation. Now chiefly figurative (cf. revisit v. 1c). ΘΚΠ society > travel > [noun] > visiting a place > again revisitation1631 society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [noun] > again revisitation1631 1631 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 456 Even the dearest servants of Christ may bee re-visited with more horrour of conscience afterward, then at their first turning on Gods side... This revisitation may befall them also. a1639 T. Dekker et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) iii. i. 32 All questions of my journey, my stay, imployment, And revisitation fully I have answered all. 1798 T. Jefferson Let. 31 Aug. in Papers (2003) XXX. 505 I am sincerely concerned at the revisitation of your city by the yellow fever. 1799 S. J. Pratt Gleanings in Eng. xxiii. 521 Your revisitation of the beach..has a peculiar charm. 1865 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 36 454 Messina experienced a re-visitation [of epidemic cholera] in August and September. a1894 R. L. Stevenson Pref. to Master of Ballantrae in Wks. (1898) XXVIII. 48 The editor of the following pages revisits now and again the city of which he exults to be a native; and there are few things more strange..than such revisitations. 1939 Times 2 Aug. 15/6 ‘Doing a Mole’ was Vin's phrase..for a revisitation of old haunts. 1969 D. S. Schwayder in P. Winch Stud. Philos.Wittgenstein iii. 210 His [sc. Wittgenstein's] revisitations to the philosophy of mathematics, which kept his interest until at least 1944. 2002 Philadelphia Weekly 17 Apr. 32/2 It's a superbly executed revisitation of Van's pet genres: a little bit country, a little bit rock n' roll, a little bit skiffle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1549 |
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