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▪ I. † reˈvie, n. Obs.
Also 6–7 reuie, 7 reuye.
[a. F. renvi (= It. rinvito, Sp. and Pg. revite), verbal n. f. renvier revie v.]
1. In card-playing, a higher stake ventured by a player against that proposed by an opponent.
1592Greene Conny Catch. ii. Wks. (Grosart) X. 99 At last to maintain the main and to checke vies with reuies, he laide his horse in the hazard, and lost him. a1618J. Davies (Heref.) Wittes Pilgr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 38/1 Some Elders, for re-uies, passe Pare, and Post, When lo, the Yonger shares, or Doubles it. 1648Gage West Ind. ix. 26 So the cards were handsomely shuffled, the vies and revies were doubled. Ibid., Sometimes the vies and revies went round of twenty patacons. 1680[see revie v. 3].
fig.1591Greene Conny Catch. To Rdr., They haue their vies and reuies vppon the poore Cunnies backe, till [etc.].
2. transf.
a. A return blow or thrust.
1589Greene Tullies Loue Wks. (Grosart) VII. 202 In his owne minde hauing a boute or two with fancie, he gaue hir so deepe a reuie that hee held affection at the swordes point.
b. A repetition; a renewed inspection.
In quot. 1621 perh. associated with review.
1588Greene Metamorphosis Wks. (Grosart) IX. 23 And here multiplying sigh vpon sigh with double and trebble reuies, shee ceased. 1621Quarles Esther vi, He lik't them all, but when with strict reuye He viewed Ester's face, his wounded eye Sparkl'd.
▪ II. † reˈvie, v. Obs.
Also 5–7 reuye, 6–7 reuie, revy.
[ad. F. renvier, = Sp. and Pg. revidar, It. rinvitare, late L. reinvītāre, f. L. re- re- + invitāre to invite.]
1. trans. To return (an invitation). rare—1.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xliii. (1869) 159 If it bifalle that he drinke first, that oother wole drinke also, and seyth anoon, j reuye it.
2. To challenge in return. Also intr., to make return of a challenge on another. rare.
c1470Harding Chron. clv. 2 For whose beautie it should the knyghtes moue In armes so echeone other to reuie, To get a fame in play of chiualry. Ibid. clxxviii. 20 Echeone on other of pride so reuied Without rule of marciall gouernaunce, Thei smored wer, by their contrariaunce.
3. In card-playing: To meet by venturing a larger stake than that proposed by an opponent. Also in fig. context.
1591Florio 2nd Fruites 69 S. I vye it, will you hould it? A. Yea sir, I hold it, and reuie it, but dispatch. 1591Greene Conny Catch. (1859) 25 Ile vie and revie every card at my pleasure till eyther yours or mine come out. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. iv. i, S'light, here's a trick vyed, and reuyed! 1635Quarles Embl. ii. v. 3 Thy cunning can but pack the cards;..Thy game at weakest, still thou vy'st; If seen, and then revy'd, deny'st. 1680Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 66 The first or eldest says, I'le vye the Ruff, the next says, I'le see it, and the third, I'le see it and revie it: I'le see your revie, says the first.
transf.1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 282, I cal to minde an auncient historie of vowes vied and reuied between the citizens of Croto. 1609Rowley Search for Money (Percy Soc.) 13 She vied and revied othes to the contrary that it was not so. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. ix. 235 All this time the Knights play'd it at Dutch Gleek, and had so vied it, and revied it, that they were all Honours in their faces. 1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 100 To vye him, and see him, and re-vye him in contradictions. This figure now is lost to any man that is not a gamester.
4. intr. To make a revie or revies.
1591Greene Conny Catch. Wks. (Grosart) X. 27 So they vie and reuie till some ten shillings bee on the stake. a1618J. Davies (Heref.) Wittes Pilgr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 38/1 Some, beeing Pa-riall,..Vy, and re-uy, and weene they all shall winn. a1640Jackson Creed x. xl. Wks. IX. 395 Like a wilful chafing gamester who after once he hath begun to vie upon or provoke his adversary resolves to revie upon him and to provoke him further. 1680Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 67 I'le see it and revie, saith one; I'le see it and revie, saith another.
fig.1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. v. 96 Where he plaied his cards so well, and vied and revied so often, that he had scarce an eye to see withall.
b. transf. To make counter-bids.
1602Carew Cornwall 37 A farme..can no sooner fall in hand, then the Suruey Court shalbe waited on with many Officers, vying & reuying each on other.
c. To retort or retaliate.
a1610Babington Wks. (1622) 401 Not multiplying words with your husband,..vying and revying, and will he, nill he still hauing the last word. 1629J. M. tr. Fonseca's Devout Contempl. 533 He that vpon the vying of an inimie will not..reuie vpon him but let it passe. a1734North Exam. iii. vi. §53 (1740) 462 The other revyed, and denied his Facts; and so too and fro, vying and revying with perpetual Contradiction, little less than giving each other the Lye.
Hence † reˈvying vbl. n. Obs.
1635Quarles Embl. i. vi. 5 True rest consists not in the oft revying Of worldly drosse. 1680Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 67 For which seeing and revying they reckon but two, after that it is at once come to eight. 1689Tryal Bishops 62 We must not have vying and re-vying, for then we shall have no end. |