revestry 
Then y sayd Knight to bee convayd into the revestre, 
and there to bee vnarmyd. 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 35. 
Bestrewe thine altars w th . flowers thicke, 
Sente them wt. odours Arrabicque : 
Perfuminge all the reoestryeg, 
Wt. muske, cyvett, and ambergries? 
Puttenham, Partheniades, xvi. 
revestu (re-ves'tu), a. [OF., pp. of revestir, re- 
vest: see revest.'} In her., covered by a square 
set diagonally, or a lozenge, the corners of which 
touch the edges of the space covered by it : said 
of the field or of any ordinary, as a chief or 
fesse. 
revesturet (re-ves'tur), H. [< recent, + -lire. Cf. 
ccnture.] Vesture. 
The aultars of this chapell were hanged with riche reves- 
turc of clothe of gold of tissue, embroudered with pearles. 
Hall, Hen. VIII., an. 12. 
revest, and v. An obsolete form of rivet. 
revet 2 (re- vet'), r. t. ; pret. and pp. revetted, ppr. 
revetting. [< F. revtitir, clothe again, face or 
line, as a fortification, foss, etc., < OF. reves- 
tir, clothe again: see revest.'] To face, as an 
embankment, with masonry or other material. 
All the principal apartments of the palace properly so 
called were netted with sculptural slabs of alabaster, gen- 
erally about 9 ft. in height, like those at Nimroud. 
J. Fergusson, Hist. Arch., I. 168. 
revetment (re-vet'ment), ,n. [Also revetement ; 
< F. ret'ctement, < rev/iir, line, revet : see revet 2 .] 
1. In fort., a facing to a wall or bank, as of a 
scarp or parapet; a retaining wall (which see, 
under retaining). In permanent works the revetment 
is usually of masonry ; in field-works it may be of sods, 
gabions, timber, hurdles, etc. 
2. In civil engin., a retaining wall or breast- 
wall ; also, any method of protecting banks or 
the sides of a cut to preserve them from ero- 
sion, as the sheathing of a river-bank with 
mats, screens, or mattresses. 
Back of all this rises a stone revetement wall, supporting 
the river street. Harper's Mag. , LXXIX. 92. 
3. In arch., any facing of stone, metal, or wood 
over a less sightly or durable substance or con- 
struction. 
The absence of any fragments of columns, friezes, cor- 
nices, etc. (except terra-cotta revetements), confirms the 
theory that the Etruscan temple was built of wood. 
New Princeton Rev., V. 141. 
revictt, v. t. [< L. revictus, pp. of revincere, 
conquer, subdue, refute: see revince. Cf. con- 
vict.} To reconquer ; reobtain. Bp.Hall,A.u- 
tobiog., p. xxvii. (Danes.) 
revictiont (re-vik'shon), . [< L. revivere, pp. 
revictus, live again, revive : see revive .] Return 
to life ; revival. 
Do we live to see a reviction of the old Sadduceism, so 
long since dead and forgotten? 
Bp. Hall, Mystery of Godliness, 9. 
revictual (re-vit'l), v. [Formerly also revittle; 
< re- + victual.'] I. trans. To victual again ; 
furnish again with provisions. 
We reuictualled him, and sent him for England, with a 
true relation of the causes of our defailments. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 232. 
II. intrans. To renew one's stock of provi- 
sions. 
He [Captain Giles de la Roche] had design'd to revittle 
in Portugal. Milton, Letters of State, Aug., 1666. 
reviet (re-vi.'), v. [Also revye ; (. re- + vie.] I. 
trans. 1. To vie with again ; rival in return ; es- 
pecially, at cards, to stake a larger sum against. 
Thy game at weakest, still thou vy'st ; 
If seen, and then revy'd, deuy'st 
Thou art not what thou seem'st ; false world, thou ly'st. 
Quarles, Emblems, ii. 5. 
To revie was to cover it [a certain sum] with a larger 
sum, by which the challenged became the challenger, and 
was to be remed in his turn, with a proportionate increase 
of stake. Gifford, Note to B. Jonson's Every Man in his 
[Humour, iv. 1. 
2. To surpass the amount of (a responsive 
challenge or bet): an old phrase at cards; 
hence, in general, to outdo ; outstrip; surpass. 
What shall we play for? One shilling stake, and three 
rest. I vye it; will you hould it? Yes. sir, I hould it. 
andreoyeit. Florio, Secret Frutes (1591). (Latham.) 
Here 's a trick vied and revied ! 
B. Jonton, Every Man in his Humour, iv. 1. 
True rest consists not in the oft remjiiiii 
Of worldly dross. Quarles, Emblems, i. 6. 
II, intrans. To respond to a challenge at 
cards by staking a larger sum ; hence, to re- 
tort; recriminate. 
We must not permit vying and revyiny upon one an- 
other. 
Chief Justice Wriyht, in the Trial of the Seven Bishops. 
review (re-vu'), n. [< OF. revue, reve-ue, are- 
viewing or review, F, revue, a review, < revu, 
5139 
pp. of rcroir, < L. renidere, see again, go to see 
again, < re-, again, + videre, see: see view, and 
cf. revise. Cf. Sp. Pg. revista = It. rivista, re- 
view, of similar formation: see vista.] 1. A 
second or repeated view. 
But the works of nature will bear a thousand views and 
renews, and yet still be instructive and still wonderful. 
Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, II. ii. 
2. A view of the past ; a retrospective survey. 
Mem'ry's pointing wand, 
That calls the past to our exact review. 
Cowper, Task, iv. 184. 
Is the pleasure that is tasted 
Patient of a long review? 
M. Arnold, New Sirens. 
3. The process of going over again or repeat- 
ing what is past : as, the review of a study ; the 
class has monthly reviews in Latin. 4. A re- 
vision ; a reexamination with a view to amend- 
ment or improvement: as, an author's review 
of his works. [Obsolete or obsolescent.] 
Great importunities were used to His Sacred Majesty 
that the said Book might be revised. ... In which re- 
view we have endeavoured to observe the like moderation 
as we find to have been used in the like case in former 
times. Book of Common Prayer (Church of Eng.), Pref . 
5. A critical examination ; a critique ; partic- 
ularly, a written discussion of the merits and 
defects of a literary work ; a critical essay. 
If a review of his work was very laudatory, it was a 
great pleasure to him to send it home to his mother at 
Fairoaks. Thackeray, Pendennis, xli. 
6. The name given to certain periodical pub- 
lications, consisting of a collection of critical 
essays on subjects of public interest, literary, 
scientific, political, moral, or theological, to- 
gether with critical examinations of new pub- 
lications. 
Novels (witness ev'iy month's review) 
Belie their name, and offer nothing new. 
Cowper, Retirement, 1. 713. 
7. The formal inspection of military or naval 
forces by a higher official or a superior in rank, 
with a view to learning the condition of the 
forces thus inspected, and their skill in per- 
forming customary evolutions and maneu- 
vers. 8. In law, the judicial revision or re- 
consideration of a judgment or an order al- 
ready made ; the examination by an appellate 
tribunal of the decision of a lower tribunal, to 
determine whether it be erroneous A bill of 
review, In law, a bill filed to reverse or alter a decree in 
chancery if some error in law appears in the body of the 
decree, or if new evidence were discovered after the de- 
cree was made. Commission of review, in Eng. law, a 
commission formerly granted by the sovereign to revise the 
sentence of the now extinct Court of Delegates. Court 
Of Review, the court of appeal from the commissioners 
in bankruptcy, established by 1 and 2 Wm. IV., Ivi., but 
abolished by 10 and 11 Viet., cii., etc. 
review (re-vu'), v. [< re- + view; or < review, 
".] I. trans. If. To see again. 
When thou revieirest this, thou dost review 
The very part was consecrate to thee. 
Shak., Sonnets, Ixxiv. 
Backe he was sent to Brasil ; and long it was before his 
longing could be satisfied to reuiew his Countrey and 
friends. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 842. 
2. To look back upon; recall by the aid of 
memory. 
Let me review the scene, 
And summon from the shadowy Past 
The forms .that once have been. 
Longfellow, A Gleam of Sunshine. 
3. To repeat; go over again; retrace: as, to 
review a course of study. 
Shall I the long, laborious scene renew, 
And open all the wounds of Greece anew ? 
Pope, Odyssey, iii. 1-27. 
4. To examine again ; go over again in order to 
prune or correct ; revise. 
Many hundred (Argus hundred) eyes 
View, and renew, each line, each word, as spies. 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 2. 
I maturely thought it proper, 
When a' my works I did review, 
To dedicate them. Sir, to you. 
Burns, Dedication to Gavin Hamilton. 
5. To consider or discuss critically ; go over in 
careful examination in order to bring out ex- 
cellences and defects, and, with reference to 
established canons, to pass judgment ; espe- 
cially, to consider or discuss critically in a 
written essay. . 
How oft in pleasing tasks we wear the day, . . . 
How oft our slowly-growing works impart, . . . 
How oft review; each finding, like a friend, 
Something to blame and something to commend ! 
Pope, To Mr. Jervas, 1. 21. 
See honest Hallam lay aside his fork, 
Resume his pen, review his Lordship's work, 
And, grateful for the dainties on his plate, 
Declare his landlord can at least translate ! 
Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. 
revile 
By-the-way, when we come by-and-by to review the ex- 
hibition at Burlington House, there is one painter whom 
we must try our best to crush. 
Bulwer, Kenelm Chillingly, iv. 4. 
6. To look carefully over; survey; especially, 
to make a formal or official inspection of: as, 
to review a regiment. 
At the Mauchline muir, where they were remew'd, 
Ten thousand men in armour show'd. 
Battle of Pentland Hills (Child's Ballads, VII. 241). 
The skilful nymph revieivs her force with care. 
Pope, K. of the L., iii. 45. 
7. In law : (a) To consider or examine again ; 
revise : as, a court of appeal reviews the judg- 
ment of an inferior court. (6) To reexamine 
or retax, as a bill of costs by the taxing-master 
or by a judge in chambers. 
II. intrans. 1. To look back. 
His reviewing eye 
Has lost the chasers, and his ear the cry. 
Sir J. Denham, Cooper's Hill. 
2. To make reviews ; be a reviewer: as, he re- 
views for the "Times." 
reviewable (re-vu' a-bl), a. [< review + -able.] 
Capable of being reviewed ; subject to review. 
The proceedings in any criminal trial are reviewable by 
the full bench, whenever the judge who presides at the 
trial certifies that any point raised at it is doubtful. 
The Nation, Dec. 20, 1883. 
reviewage (re-vu'aj), . [< review + -age.'] 
The act or art of reviewing or writing critical 
notices of books, ete. ; the work of reviewing. 
[Rare.] 
Whatever you order down to me in the way of reviewaye, 
I shall of course execute. 
W. Taylor, To R. Southey, Dec. 30, 1807. 
reviewal (re-vu'al), . [< revieie + -al.~\ The 
act of reviewing; a review; a critique. 
I have written a reviewal of "Lord Howe's Life." 
Southey, To Mrs. J. W. Warter, June 5, 1838. 
reviewer (rf-vu'er), n. 1. One who revises; 
a reviser. 
This rubric, being the same that we have in king Ed- 
ward's second Common Prayer Book, may perhaps have 
slipt into the present book through the inadvertency of 
the reviewers. 
Wheatly, Illus. of Book of Common Prayer, ii. 5. 
2. One who reviews or criticizes ; especially, 
one who critically examines and passes judg- 
ment upon new publications; a writer of re- 
views. 
Who shall dispute what the reviewers say? 
Their word 's sufficient. Churchill, The Apology. 
Those who have failed as writers turn reviewers. 
Landor, Imaginary Conversations, Southey and Porson, i. 
Between ourselves, I think reviewers, 
When call'd to truss a crowing bard, 
Should not be sparing of the skewers. 
F. Locker, Advice to a Poet. 
He has never, he says, been a reviewer. He confesses 
to wanting a reviewer's gift, the power of being "blind to 
great merits and lynx-eyed to minute errors." 
Nineteenth Century, XXVI. 838. 
revigorate (re-vig'or-at), v. t. [< L. re-, again, 
+ vigoratus, pp. of vigorare, animate, strength- 
en, < vigor, vigor: see vigor. Cf. invigorate.] 
To give new vigor to. Imp. Diet. 
revigorate (re-vig'or-at), . [< revigorate, v.] 
Reinvigorated. 
The fire which seem'd extinct 
Hath risen revigorate. 
Southey. 
revile (re-vil'), v. ; pret. and pp. reviled, ppr. 
reviling. ' [< ME. revilen, revylen, < re- + OF. 
aviler, F. avilir, make vile or cheap, disprize, 
disesteem, < a-, to, + vil, vile, cheap: see vile.] 
I. trans. To cast reproach upon; vilify; es- 
pecially, to use contemptuous or opprobrious 
language to ; abuse ; asperse. 
Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute 
you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, 
for my sake. Mat. v. 11. 
His eye reviled 
Me, as his abject object. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 1. 126. 
No ill words : let his own shame first revile him. 
Fletcher, Bonduca, ii. 4. 
= Syn. To vilify, abuse, malign, lampoon, defame. (Sec 
asperse.) The distinction of revile from these words is that 
it always applies to persons, is generally unjust and always 
improper, generally applies to what is said to or before 
the person affected, and makes him seem to others vile or 
worthless. 
II. intrans. To act or speak abusively. 
Christ, . . when he was reviled, reviled not again. 
1 Pet. ii. 28. 
revilet (re-vil'), . [< revile, v.] Revilement ; 
abusive tre.atm.ent or language; an insult; a 
reproach. 
I have gain'd a name bestuck, or, as I may say, bedeckt 
with the reproaches and reviles of this modest Confuter. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
