revise

revise (rɪˈvaɪz)

—vb
1.	(tr) to change, alter, or amend: to revise one's opinion
2.	(Brit) to reread (a subject or notes on it) so as to memorize it, esp in preparation for an examination
3.	(tr) to prepare a new version or edition of (a previously printed work)

—n
4.	the act, process, or result of revising; revision

[C16: from Latin revīsere to look back at, from re- + vīsere to inspect, from vidēre to see; see review, visit]

re'visable

—*adj*

re'visal

—n

re'viser

—n

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Word Origin & History

revise

1567, "to look at again," from M.Fr. reviser, from L. revisere "look at again, visit again," frequentative of revidere (pp. revisus), from re- "again" + videre "to see" (see vision). Meaning "to look over again with intent to improve or amend" is recorded from 1596. The Revised

Version of the Bible was done 1870-84; so called because it was a revision of the 1611 ("King James") translation, also known as the Authorized Version. Revision (1611) is from Fr. revision, from L.L. revisionem (nom. revisio) "a seeing again," from L. revisus, pp. of revidere. Revisionism is attested from 1903; originally in Marxist jargon; revisionist in the historical sense is from 1934, originally with ref. to the causes of World War I.

Example sentences

It gives us a chance to correct mistakes and revise opinions.

Editors at his company's journals sometimes contact authors to ask them to

revise their work or correct their citations.

All of which is no reason to revise one's critical opinion.

But many scientists are coming to think that sensory input may merely revise

ongoing internal activity in the brain.

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Matching Quote

"I was born to be an editor, I always edit everything. I edit my room at least once a week. Hotels are made for me. I can change a hotel room so thoroughly that even its proprietor doesn't recognize it.... I edit people's clothes, dressing them infallibly in the right lines.... I change everyone's coiffure—except those that please me—and these I gaze at with such satisfaction that I become suspect, I edit people's tones of voice, their laughter, their words. I change their gestures, their photographs. I change the books I read, the music I hear ... It's this incessant, unavoidable observation, this need to distinguish and impose, that has made me an editor. I can't make things. I can only revise what has been made."

-Margaret Anderson