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▪ I. revisit, n.|riːˈvɪzɪt|
[re- 5 a.]
A repeated or second visit.
1623in Birch Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) II. 385 So particular a relation of all their visits and revisits, that..it tells every step. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 206 Albeit our Ambassadour in civility sent to visit him, he returned a sleight thanks without a re-visit. 1699R. L'Estrange Erasm. Colloq. (1725) 13, I have been on a visit..to the famous Lady..in England (which in truth was a revisit). 1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 307 The spirit of female intrigue..was very instrumental in bringing about the re⁓visit from Elba. 1889Daily News 10 May 2/2 The proposed revisit of the Russian pianist..has been abandoned.
▪ II. revisit, v.|riːˈvɪzɪt|
[ad. F. revisiter, = Sp. and Pg. revisitar, It. rivisitare, L. revīsitāre, or f. re- 5 a + visit v.]
†1. trans. To revise, reinspect, re-examine. Obs.
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. ccxxiii. [ccxviii.] 691 They saye, that ye haue not dilygently reuisyted nor ouersene the letters patentes. 1598Barret Theor. Warres iv. i. 105 To visit and reuisit all the before appointed matters and orders. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 156 You then revisit your Parterre from one End to the other, and new furnish with Box the Places that require it.
2. a. To visit again, to return or come back to (a place, person, etc.). Also fig. (cf. sense 1; always in pa. pple).
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iii. iii, Now gapes the graves, and through their yawnes let loose Imprison'd spirits to revisit earth. 1633P. Fletcher Poet. Misc. 60 But then revisit our long-long'd-for Kent. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 13 Thee I re-visit now with bolder wing. 1729Pope Let. to Harley 24 Dec., I have been twice revisited with this distemper. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xii. (1782) I. 405 It was time that the emperor should revisit Rome. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam i. xlvi, My pale lip quivers When thought re⁓visits them. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre ii, I began to recall what I had heard of dead men..revisiting the earth. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 324 The young mother longs to revisit the infant she has left behind her. 1971Language XLVII. 503 (heading) The phoneme revisited. 1975I. Robinson New Grammarians' Funeral ix. 169 (heading) ‘The science of language’ revisited. 1976Lingua XL. 321 (heading) The -ing form revisited. 1977Language LIII. 277 (heading) Conversational postulates revisited.
b. absol. To pay a visit or visits again.
1737Gentl. Mag. VII. 312/2 Nanny revisits, and disgrac'd I fall. 1862Lytton Str. Story II. 73 Rejoiced, at least, that Margrave had not revisited at Mrs. Ashleigh's.
Hence reˈvisiting vbl. n.
1598Florio, Riuisita, a reuisiting, a reuiewing. |