revisionn.
/rᵻˈvɪʒn/, U.S. /rəˈvɪʒ(ə)n/, /riˈvɪʒ(ə)n/ (also in sense 5)Brit. /riːˈvɪʒn/, U.S. /ˌriˈvɪʒ(ə)n/ I. The action of re-examining, and related senses.† 1.
a. The action or an act of looking over or surveying something again. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > revising or reviewing
review1565
revision1595
revising1611
revise1641
reviewal1650
1595 A. Hartwell tr. G. T. Minadoi Hist. Warres Turkes & Persians ix. 375 Ferat..made a reuision [It. reuisione] and newe surueigh of all his Armie.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Revision, a reuision, reuise, reuiew, reexamination, looking ouer againe.
1799 Llewellin III. viii. 234 [She] was so intently engaged by a revision of her late acquisitions,..that I took that occasion to open the cabin door.
1891 J. W. Powell in 11th Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. 1889–90: Pt. 2 305 Mr. Tweedy organized a party..for the revision and survey, in more detail, of the shores of the Yellowstone Lake from the water line to an elevation of 8000 feet.
b. The action or an act of taking a retrospective survey; review, or a review. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun] > instance of > survey
review1611
revision1619
retrospect1626
retrospection1661
recherche du temps perdu1932
1619 D. Carleton Let. 2 Nov. (1775) 405 There shall be a tribunal established in some free place, which shall take revision of what is past in late tumults, and make provision for the future.
1796 G. D. Harley Poems 101 The crowding comforts come: In cool and sweet revision of the past.
1833 W. C. Macready Diary 3 Jan. (1912) I. 2 Let my revision of this day enable me to be more resolute in my resistance of future temptations.
1840 Iris Dec. 55 The lover of history, in his revision of the past, lingers o'er the strange tale of the wild speculations of these times.
2.
a. The action or an act of revising something; critical or careful examination or perusal of a text, judgment, code, etc., with a view to making corrections, amendments, or improvements.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > looking over with a view to amendment
review1565
revision1607
revising1611
revise1641
reviewal1650
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > critical revision of text
review1565
recognition1568
censure1604
revision1607
revise1641
diorthosis1704
recension1793
diaskeuasis1886
1607 E. Grimeston tr. S. Goulart Admirable & Memorable Hist. 10 They beseech him to allowe of a reuision [Fr. Le supplient d'vne reuision], the which is graunted..: whereas all being..examined, it was..iudged..that the former decres..were voide.
1662 J. Davies in tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors To Rdr. sig. A 3 Considering this Revision, what is now publish'd is both a more curious, and more compleat Piece.
1766 H. Conway Let. 31 Mar. in E. O'Callaghan Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1856) VII. 824 A Revision of the late American Trade Laws is going to be the immediate object of Parliament.
1771 S. Johnson Let. 29 Aug. in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1793) II. 630 I am engaging in a very great work, the revision of my Dictionary.
1797 E. Malone in J. Reynolds Wks. I. p. xxvii Though they are only detached thoughts, and did not receive his final revision and correction, I am unwilling to suppress them.
1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 14 Our commercial situation and system deserved and required revision.
1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. i. 12 Few letters or papers passed his revision without being returned with marginal notes.
1876 Contemp. Rev. June 96 Revision [of the New Testament] has..become a public question.
1931 A. L. Rowse Politics & Younger Generation 271 The foremost problems in European politics..will centre round the revision of the Treaty of Versailles.
1969 N. Chomsky At War with Asia (1971) i. 27 During this period there have been many modifications of tactics, and even occasional revision of goals as earlier hopes proved unrealizable.
1990 J. Sutherland Mrs Humphry Ward ii. 24 His great work, A Manual of English Literature, was under constant revision.
2009 Birmingham Mail (Nexis) 6 May 24 He [sc. the Chancellor] could have used this golden opportunity to instigate a thorough revision of the entire stamp duty regime.
b. The result of this; a revised or amended version of a text, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [noun] > result of revision
review1565
revision1682
revise1688
recension1793
1682 ‘W. L.’ (title) The Revision Revised.
1710 W. Nicholls Comment Bk. Common-prayer sig. D/2 There was another Translation, or at least a Revision of the Bible, in Queen Elizabeth's Time.
1760 J. Jortin Life Erasmus II. ii. 158 Scarcely was the revision on this book completed, when Paulus Manutius died.
1845 J. Kitto Cycl. Biblical Lit. (1849) II. 919/1 A revision of it..is now wanted, or rather, a new translation.
1880 Bible (R.V.) Pref. The English Version of the New Testament here presented to the reader is a Revision of the Translation published in..1611.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 864/1 The treatise in its present form is a revision prepared by a later Byzantine editor.
1966 T. M. Newcomb et al. Social Psychol. (ed. 2) xiv. 429 The scale was a revision of the original Bogardus scale.
2002 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 15 June 2271/2 Only under the 1995 revision of the Mines Act has cancer of the lungs, stomach and pleura been included under compensable diseases.
c. A single amendment or correction to a piece of work.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > instance of
redress1578
correctivea1676
revision1800
amends1888
1800 German Museum 1 363 We are already engaged with two able English assistants, with whose contributions and revisions we have every reason to be satisfied.
1833 E. S. Rogers Fables p. xi An intimate friend of the Author; who not only kindly suggested many revisions, but supplied him with all the early and original letters which appear in this Memoir.
1883 P. Godwin Biogr. William Cullen Bryant xii. 233 The manuscript of ‘The Buccaneer’ was forwarded to Mr. Bryant..with a request that he should look over it, and suggest such revisions as might seem to be advisable.
1921 H. W. Dresser Quimby Manuscripts (ed. 2) 24 I..have taken note in conscientious detail to see if any revisions or changes were in the handwriting of Mrs. Eddy.
1966 H. S. Thompson Let. 28 June in Proud Highway (1997) 577 The final revisions are done and a lot of the original zap is gone from the book, but there are parts of it I think you might like.
1991 A. Martin Walking on Water (1992) iii. 9 With a few small revisions, you should get it published without too much difficulty.
2009 Charlotte (N. Carolina) Observer (Nexis) 10 June 1 a The board made only one revision to the staff plan, reassigning board member Larry Gauvreau's neighborhood.
3. Education. The action or process of going over a subject or work already learnt or done with the aim of reinforcing it, typically in preparation for an examination; an instance of this.Not in North American use: cf. review n. 8.
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society > education > learning > study > [noun] > revision
revising1611
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1838 Lady's Bk. Dec. 225/1 She therefore become more cheerful..and applied herself closely to a revision of her former studies.
1884 Math. Questions & Solutions 40 (end matter) (advt.) The book will be valuable to a student in revision for examination purposes.
1916 A. Huxley Let. 1 May (1969) 98 I am busy with revision, doing papers for my tutor under examination conditions.
1933 V. Brittain Testament of Youth ii. 74 The longing to thaw my stiff fingers tempted me to abandon even a frantic last-minute revision.
1979 Observer 29 July 21/1 I thought the end of school term might be a good occasion for a little revision.
2008 Sunday Times (Nexis) 13 July (News Review section) 11 When my friends were doing A-level revision they were very relaxed, even revising just the night before.
4. Surgery. Surgery performed to improve the outcome of previous surgical treatment; esp. the repair or replacement of an artificial joint; an instance of this.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > prosthesis > [noun] > repair or replacement
revision1915
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > fixation and repair operations > [noun] > repair > other repair operations
coloplication1908
revision1915
rhytidectomy1931
vasovasostomy1949
1915 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 29 463/1 (heading) Revisions of amputations—to be avoided. (Zur Vermeidung von Nachamputation.)
1947 Jrnl. Bone & Joint Surg. 29 48 Fifteen months later, a blow on the hip resulted in formation of a small sinus, and revision may be necessary if osteitis under the mold and sinus formation persist.
1977 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 134 404/1 Approximately 20 per cent of ileal conduits need surgical revision.
1987 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Aug. 514/2 A new epidemic of patients requiring joint revision is starting to make inroads into operating lists: in Oxford one in five operations to replace hips are now revisions.
2007 Harbor Lights (Kitty Harbor) July 2 I want to apologize for the lateness of this issue. I had a knee revision on May 15.
II. The action of seeing again.
5. The fact of seeing a person or thing again; an instance of this; a fresh or new vision of something. Now rare.In later use apprehended as re- + vision, and hence sometimes hyphenated.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > again
revisitation1549
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revision1796
1796 J. Owen Trav. Europe II. 310 I was particularly gratified in this ascent by a revision of that prodigious rock, the Aiguille de Dru.
1838 S. Jackson tr. G. F. A. Strauss Reminisc. Lutheran Clergyman iii. 286 Heaven and earth beheld each other, and seemed to be astonished at the revision.
1891 E. L. Arnold Wonderful Adventures Phra the Phœnician xi A sweet revision of Blodwin, my..British wife!
1904 W. P. Watson Japan xxvi. 226 The grief and tears of the day seemed a premonition of sorrow—a re-vision of the old hell.
1994 Queen's Q. Fall 691 The ‘redescriptions’ go far beyond Gibreel Farishta's cinematic re-visions of Islam's beginnings.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. In sense 2, as revision committee, revision process, revision work, etc.
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1783 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 2 80 The king's Revision Court to which all civil causes are appealable.
1838 Times 14 Aug. 3/3 The Report of the Standing Orders Revision Committee was considered and agreed to.
1850 Colonial Church Chron. Jan. 248 At these meetings, not only our revision work was carried on, but a great deal of very useful business was transacted.
1879 J. Franklin & J. A. Headington Life & Times B. Franklin xiv. 301 These articles and responses were published..in a book which was largely circulated as a revision document.
1906 E. L. Heermance Democracy in Church ix. 109 A disaffected minority [within the Church] who claimed the revision act of 1885 to be ‘unconstitutional’.
1911 Washington Post 7 Aug. 5/2 Revision measures may cause prolongment of session beyond this week.
1921 Pop. Mech. June 884 At present two revision plans [for the calendar] are being considered by the British parliament and our own congress.
1949 J. Kerouac Let. 28 June in Sel. Lett. 1940–56 (1995) 202 Our revision-work, by the way, is going to be very light.
1997 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 2 Oct. a14 This revision process..has seen service planners and caregivers..work in close collaboration.
C2. In sense 3, as revision class, revision exercise, etc.
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1885 Cal. Univ. College Wales 1884–85 57 There will also be a revision class for the January Matriculation Examination during the First Term.
1907 F. W. Hadrill (title) Revision Notes on English History.
1937 J. A. Corbett & O. H. Eichele (title) Classified revision exercises in German.
1977 Sounds 9 July 22/2 Those little revision booklets English (or US, in this case) Lit. students buy when they haven't read, say, ‘Bleak House’ and there's an exam tomorrow morning.
1989 P. Godfrey Inventing New Colour in K. Harwood First Run (1989) ii. 68 Your revision notes, better take them. We will still have to..take exams.
2007 Daily Tel. 24 Apr. 21/1 A neighbour who runs a tea-and-biscuit revision session for her own children, which mine are welcome to attend.
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revisionv.
/ˌriːˈvɪʒn/, U.S. /riˈvɪʒ(ə)n/ 1. transitive. To form an image of again or afresh, esp. in one's memory; to envisage again. Now rare.
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1838 J. D. Canning Poems 52 'T is Nature's work, revisioned and complete.
1854 Ainsworth's Mag. 25 441 Her mind seemed strangely active, too, in her despair; it was flowing back, revisioning the past.
1872 T. Norton Hermit i. 16 A moonbeam pass'd, illuming suddenly, Like to a second sight revisioning, A picture of some noble ancestor.
1913 J. London Valley of Moon xiv. 245 She endured the gray bleakness of the years in the orphan asylum; revisioned every memory of her mother, every tale; and relived all her life with Billy.
1920 J. O. Curwood Valley of Silent Men vi. 74 He revisioned for himself over and over again her hair and eyes.
2. transitive. To form a new concept of; to reinterpret.
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1968 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Jan. 26 (heading) The Cold War, revisited and revisioned.
1971 New Lit. Hist. 3 16 Perhaps we can start by revisioning Modernism.
1980 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Relig. 47 636 In being revisioned as a lover of this sort, Don Juan would be especially appropriate as a model for men.
2005 L. Leblanc Pretty in Punk vii. 216 The solution therefore lies in re-visioning cultural notions of gender and power.
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