单词 | reviewatory |
释义 | † reviewatoryadj. Obsolete. Of, relating to, or involved in the writing of reviews. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > review or critique > [adjective] reviewatory1822 reviewish1835 1822 L. Hunt Liberal I. 70 It is the fault of the ‘accursed critical spirit’ that is the bane of these times, that we are obliged to be..base and reviewatory like the rest. 1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 101 A candour most unusual in persons of the reviewatory profession. 1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 666 He has passed unnamed by the ordinary guardians of the gates reviewatory. a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) I. 202 It was once my intention to have launched a criticism on this delightful little book... Little imports it to the world to know what contrary winds..so long detained my reviewatory bark from sailing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1822 |
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