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revisit en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɹiːˈvɪzɪt/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English revisite, from Middle French revisiter and Latin revīsitāre. By surface analysis, re- + visit.

Meanings

  1. An act of revisiting; a second or subsequent visit.
    • On my revisit to the lady, I found her almost as much a sufferer of joy as she had sometimes been from grief […]. 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CDXLVI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
revisits Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

revisit time

Translations (1)

es revisita (Translations)

revisit en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ɹiːˈvɪzɪt/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English revisite, from Middle French revisiter and Latin revīsitāre. By surface analysis, re- + visit.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To visit again.
    • [W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules? c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], signature C3, recto:
    • Thou, Kind Redeemer, toucht to ſee / So ſad a Sight, ſuch moving Miſery, / Didſt ſoon determine to diſpel / Theſe Shades of Death, and Gloom of Hell: / And ſo to reviſit with Thy Heav'nly Light / Loſt Man, bewilder'd in Infernal Night. 1703, [Richard Blackmore], A Hymn to the Light of the World. With a Short Description of the Cartons of Raphael Urbin, in the Gallery at Hampton-Court, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 8:
    • On November 21 the restored Highland "Jones Goods" 4-6-0, No. 103, revisited its old haunts when it worked a Stephenson Locomotive Society special from Glasgow (Buchanan Street) to Blair Atholl and back; [...]. 1960 February, “Motive Power Miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 122:
  2. (transitive) To reconsider or reexperience something.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
revisits Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
revisited Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
revisited Tense=Past lexicographic
revisiting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Translations (6)

la revīsitō (to visit again) · cmn 回顧 /回顾 (to reconsider or re-experience something) · la revīsō (to reconsider or re-experience something) · la revīsō (to visit again) · it rivisitare (to visit again) · es revisitar (to reconsider or re-experience something)