Word Meanings - REVISIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To visit again. Milton. 2. To revise. Ld. Berners.
Related words: (words related to REVISIT)
- AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - VISITATION
The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually - AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif. - AGAIN
again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, - REVISE
To compare with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type. 3. To review, alter, and amend; as, to revise statutes; to revise an agreement; to revise a dictionary. The Revised Version - AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in - AGAIN; AGAINS
Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer. - REVISER
One who revises. - VISITING
a. & vb. n. from Visit. Visiting ant. See Driver ant, under Driver. -- Visiting book, a book in which a record of visits received, made, and to be made, is kept. Thackeray. -- Visiting card. See under Card. - MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - VISITANT
One who visits; a guest; a visitor. When the visitant comes again, he is no more a stranger. South. - VISITOR
1. One who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship. "This great flood of visitors." Shak. 2. A superior, or a person lawfully appointed for the purpose, who makes formal visits of inspection to a corporation or - VISITABLE
Liable or subject to be visited or inspected. "All hospitals built since the Reformation are visitable by the king or lord chancellor." Ayliffe. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - AGAINWARD
Back again. - VISITORIAL
See VISITATORIAL - VISITE
A light cape or short cloak of silk or lace worn by women in summer. - VISITATORIAL
Of or pertaining to visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial. An archdeacon has visitatorial power. Ayliffe. The queen, however, still had over the church a visitatorial power of vast and undefined extent. Macaulay. - AGAINBUY
To redeem. Wyclif. - VISIT
To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath. hath visited and redeemed his people. Like i. 68. (more info) 1. - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - CARTE DE VISITE
1. A visiting card. 2. A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card. - PRESS REVISE
A proof for final revision. - HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology. - REVISITATION
The act of revisiting. - PREVISE
1. To foresee. 2. To inform beforehand; to warn. Ld. Lytton.