reviewaln.
/rᵻˈvjuːəl/, U.S. /rəˈvjuəl/, /riˈvjuəl/ 1. The action or an act of reviewing or revising; review, or a review, of something.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > looking over with a view to amendment
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > revising or reviewing
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1650 Brief Descr. Future Hist. Europe 11 He that returns back in reviewall of the conjuctions and fiery Triplicities, may see how they have in part prognosticated the present troubles.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxix. 276 I..may owe to you the favour of a reviewal of them, with such other papers as you shall think proper to oblige me with.
1782 J. Grose Ethics xxiv. 371 In this brief reviewal of Ethics it will be first necessary to consider man in three relations.
1844 J. Coleridge Dowling & Lownde's Rep. 49 This Court will direct a reviewal of his [sc. the master's] taxation.
1864 Sat. Rev. 18 455/2 His reviewals of the findings of courts-martial, his observations on the faults of the British cavalry.
1885 Law Times 78 340/2 A summons was taken out..to have a reviewal of the taxation of his bill of costs.
1921 Times 11 Mar. 15/3 To him it was clear that the time for a reviewal of the Treaty had not yet come.
1959 A. L. Strauss Mirrors & Masks ii. 34 The aims and aspirations of group endeavor are subject to reviewal.
1990 Toronto Star (Nexis) 3 Feb. b3 Stieb wouldn't even suggest asking for a reviewal of his contract, even if he wanted one.
2. spec. The action of reviewing a book, play, author, etc.; (also) an instance of this, a review. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > review or critique > [noun] > book-review
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1798 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 229 How angry the Anti-jacobin Magazine is with a reviewal of D'Ivernois in the appendix to the Monthly!
1805 R. Southey Let. 6 Dec. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) II. 355 I perceive that the reviewals of Madoc have in a certain degree influenced you.
1834 Blackwood's Mag. 36 273 I treat his offer of a reviewal of Mr. Hunt's London Journal with disdain.
1865 Monthly Packet Dec. 718 A fair subject for reviewal in a magazine.
1928 E. Blunden Leigh Hunt's ‘Examiner’ Examined i. 53 Performances of Comus, The Beggar's Opera, The Tempest, The School for Scandal were among the subsequent subjects of Hazlitt's careless, battering reviewal.
1960 Mod. Lang. Rev. 55 16 Evidently it was not altogether unusual for a year or more to elapse between the appearance of a novel and its reviewal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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