Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-VIEW'ING, ppr.

Looking back on; seeing again; revising; re-examining; inspecting, as an army; critically examining and remarking on.

RE-VIG'OR-ATE, v.t. [re and vigor.]

To give new vigor to. [Not in use.]

RE-VILE, n.

Reproach; contumely; contemptuous language. [Not in use.] – Milton.

RE-VILE, v.t. [re and vile. Rivilant is found in the Norman.]

To reproach; to treat with opprobrious and contemptuous language. She revileth him to his face. – Swift. Thou shalt not revile the gods. – Exod. xxii. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you. – Matth. v.

RE-VIL-ED, pp.

Reproached; treated with opprobrious or contemptuous language.

RE-VILE-MENT, n.

Reproach; contemptuous language. – More.

RE-VIL-ER, n.

One who reviles another; one who treats another with contemptuous language.

RE-VIL-ING, n.

The act of reviling or treating with reproachful words. – Is. li.

RE-VIL-ING, ppr.

Reproaching; treating with language of contempt.

RE-VIL-ING-LY, adv.

With reproachful or contemptuous language; with opprobrium.

RE-VIN'DI-CATE, v.t.

To vindicate again; to reclaim; to demand and take back what has been lost. – Mitford.

RE-VIN'DI-CA-TED, pp.

Vindicated again; reclaimed.

RE-VIN'DI-CA-TING, ppr.

Reclaiming.

RE-VI'SAL, n. [from revise.]

Revision; the act of reviewing and re-examining for correction and improvement; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet.

RE-VISE, n.

1. Review; re-examination. – Boyle.
2. Among printers, a second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first correction.

RE-VISE, v.t. [s as z. L. revisus, reviso, to revisit; re and viso, to see, to visit.]

1. To review; to re-examine; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a proof sheet set. – Pope.
2. To review, alter and amend; as, to revise statutes.

RE-VIS-ED, pp.

Reviewed; re-examined for correction.

RE-VIS-ER, n.

One that revises or re-examines for correction.

RE-VIS-ING, ppr.

Reviewing; re-examining for correction.

RE-VI'SION, n. [Fr.]

1. The act of reviewing; review; re-examination for correction; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.
2. Enumeration of inhabitants. – Tooke.

RE-VI'SION-AL, or RE-VI'SION-A-RY, a.

Pertaining to revision.

RE-VIS'IT, v.t. [s as z. Fr. revisiter; L. revisito; re and visito, from viso, to see or visit.]

To visit again. Let the pale sire revisit Thebes. – Pope.

RE-VIS-IT-A'TION, n.

The act of revisiting.

RE-VIS'IT-ED, pp.

Visited again.

RE-VIS'IT-ING, ppr.

Visiting again.