Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 60

Revising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revise

Revise (v. t.) To look at again for the detection of errors; to reexamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a translation.

Revise (v. t.) To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type.

Revise (v. t.) To review, alter, and amend; as, to revise statutes; to revise an agreement; to revise a dictionary.

Revise (n.) A review; a revision.

Revise (n.) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.

Reviser (n.) One who revises.

Revision (n.) The act of revising; reexamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.

Revision (n.) That which is made by revising.

Revisional (a.) Alt. of Revisionary

Revisionary (a.) Of or pertaining to revision; revisory.

Revisit (v. t.) To visit again.

Revisit (v. t.) To revise.

Revisitation (n.) The act of revisiting.

Revisory (a.) Having the power or purpose to revise; revising.

Revitalize (v. t.) To restore vitality to; to bring back to life.

Revivable (a.) That may be revived.

Revival (n.) The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.

Revival (n.) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.

Revival (n.) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature.

Revival (n.) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.

Revival (n.) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like.

Revival (n.) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.

Revival (n.) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.

Revival (n.) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc.

Revival (n.) Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.

Revivalism (n.) The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.

Revivalist (n.) A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively.

Revivalistic (a.) Pertaining to revivals.

Revived (imp. & p. p.) of Revive

Reviving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revive

Revive (v. i.) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

Revive (v. i.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.

Revive (v. i.) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

Revive (v. i.) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.

Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.

Revive (v. i.) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.

Revive (v. i.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.

Revivement (n.) Revival.

Reviver (n.) One who, or that which, revives.

Revivificate (v. t.) To revive; to recall or restore to life.

Revivification (n.) Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recalling, or the state of being recalled, to life.

Revivification (n.) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.

Revivify (v. t.) To cause to revive.

Reviving (a. & n.) Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating.

Reviviscence (n.) Alt. of Reviviscency

Reviviscency (n.) The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life.

Reviviscent (a.) Able or disposed to revive; reviving.

Revivor (n.) Revival of a suit which is abated by the death or marriage of any of the parties, -- done by a bill of revivor.

Revocability (n.) The quality of being revocable; as, the revocability of a law.

Revocable (a.) Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant.

Revocate (v. t.) To recall; to call back.

Revocation (n.) The act of calling back, or the state of being recalled; recall.

Revocation (n.) The act by which one, having the right, annuls an act done, a power or authority given, or a license, gift, or benefit conferred; repeal; reversal; as, the revocation of an edict, a power, a will, or a license.

Revocatory (a.) Of or pertaining to revocation; tending to, or involving, a revocation; revoking; recalling.

Revoice (v. t.) To refurnish with a voice; to refit, as an organ pipe, so as to restore its tone.

Revoked (imp. & p. p.) of Revoke

Revoking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revoke

Revoke (v. t.) To call or bring back; to recall.

Revoke (v. t.) Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like.

Revoke (v. t.) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

Revoke (v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw.

Revoke (v. t.) To call back to mind; to recollect.

Revoke (v. i.) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.

Revoke (n.) The act of revoking.

Revokement (n.) Revocation.

Revoker (n.) One who revokes.

Revokingly (adv.) By way of revocation.

Revolted (imp. & p. p.) of Revolt

Revolting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revolt

Revolt (n.) To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

Revolt (n.) Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel.

Revolt (n.) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.

Revolt (v. t.) To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.

Revolt (v. t.) To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.

Revolt (n.) The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.

Revolt (n.) A revolter.

Revolter (n.) One who revolts.

Revolting (a.) Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty.

Revoluble (a.) Capable of revolving; rotatory; revolving.

Revolute (a.) Rolled backward or downward.

Revolution (n.) The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.

Revolution (n.) Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.

Revolution (n.) The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time, or by a succession of similar events.

Revolution (n.) The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according as the point of return or completion has a fixed relation to the year, the anomaly, the nodes, the stars, or the tropics; as, the revolution of the earth about the sun; the revolution of the moon about the earth.

Revolution (n.) The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere.

Revolution (n.) A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.

Revolution (n.) A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another, by the governed.

Revolutionary (a.) Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.

Revolutionary (n.) A revolutionist.

Revolutioner (n.) One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist.

Revolutionism (n.) The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.

Revolutionist (n.) One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution.

Revolutioniezed (imp. & p. p.) of Revolutionize

Revolutionizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revolutionize

Revolutionize (v. t.) To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government.

Revolutive (a.) Inclined to revolve things in the mind; meditative.

Revolvable (a.) That may be revolved.

Revolved (imp. & p. p.) of Revolve

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