revilement 
revilement (re-vil'ment), . [< rerile + -incut.] 
The act of reviling; abuse; contemptuous or 
insulting language ; a reproach. 
Yet n'ould she stent 
Her hitter rayling and foule revilemetit. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. iv. 12. 
Scorns, and revttements, that bold and profane wretches 
have cast upon him. 
Dr. H. More, Mystery of Godliness, p. 217. (Latham.) 
reviler (re-vi'ler), ii. One who reviles; one 
who acts or speaks abusively. 
Nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom 
of Uod. 1 Cor. vi. 10. 
revilingly (re-vi'ling-li), adv. With reproach- 
ful or contemptuous language; with oppro- 
brium. 
The love I bear to the civility of expression will not 
suffer me to be revilingly broad. Maine. 
revincet (re-vins'), v. t. [= It. rivincere, < L. 
revincere, refute, overcome, < re-, again, + vin- 
cere, overcome : see victor. Cf . convince, evince, 
and revict.] To overcome ; refute ; disprove. 
Which being done, when he should see his error by 
manifest and sound testimonies of Scriptures revinced, 
Luther should find no favour at his hands. 
Foxe, Acts (ed. CattleyX IV. 280. 
revindicate (re-vin'di-kat), v. t. [Also reven- 
dicate; < LL. revindicatus, pp. of revindicare 
(> Sp. Pg. revindicar = F. revendiquer), lay 
claim to, < L. re-, back, + rindicare, claim: see 
vindicate.'] To vindicate again ; reclaim ; de- 
mand the surrender of, as goods taken away 
or detained illegally. Mitford. (Imj). Diet.) 
revindication (re-vin-di-ka'shon), n. [Also 
reveiidication ; = F. revindication = Pg. revindi- 
caqao; as revindicate + -ion.'] The act of re- 
vindicating, or demanding the restoration of 
anything taken away or retained illegally. 
reviret, r. *'. [< ME. reviren, < OF. revivre, revive : 
see revive.] To revive. 
Eke slitte and sonne-dried thou umist hem kepe, 
And when the list in water hoote retire 
Thai wol, anil taste even as the list desire. 
Palladium, Husbondrie (E. E. T. 8.), p. 58. 
revirescence (rev-i-res'ens), n. [< L. recires- 
cen(t-)s, ppr. of reoirescere, grow green again, 
inceptive of recirere, be green again, < re-, 
again, + virere, become green or strong : see 
verdant."] The renewal of youth or youthful 
strength. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
A serpent represented the divine nature, on account of 
its great vigour and spirit, its long age and revirescence. 
Warburton, Divine Legation, iv. 4. 
A faded archaic style trying as it were to resume a mock- 
ery of revirescence. Swinburne, .Shakespeare, p. 126. 
revisal (re-vl'zal), n. [< revise + -al.~] The 
act of revising"; examination with a view to 
correction or amendment; a revision. 
The revisal of these letters has been a kind of examina- 
tion of conscience to me. Pope. 
The theory neither of the British nor the state consti- 
tutions authorizes the revival of a judicial sentence by a 
legislative act. A. Hamilton, The Federalist, No. 81. 
revise (re-viz'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. revised, ppr. 
revising.' [< OF. (and F.) reviser = Sp. revisarf 
< ML. as if *revisare for L. revisere, look back 
on, revisit (of. revidere, see again), < re-, again, 
back, + visere, survey, freq. of videre, pp. visits, 
see: see vision. Cf. review.'] 1. To look care- 
fully over with a view to correction; go over 
in order to suggest or make desirable changes 
and corrections; review: as, to revise a proof- 
sheet; to revise a translation of the Bible; spe- 
cifically, in printing, to compare (a new proof- 
sheet of corrected composition) with its pre- 
viously marked proof, to see that all marked 
errors have been corrected. 
He [Debendranath Tagore] revised the Brahmaic Cove- 
nant, and wrote and published his Brahma-dharma, or the 
religion of the one true God. 
Max Miilter, Biog. Essays, p. 41. 
2, To amend; bring into conformity with pres- 
ent needs and circumstances; reform, espe- 
cially by public or official action. 
Fear for ages has boded nnd mowed and gibbered over 
government and property. That obscene bird is not there 
for nothing. He indicates great wrongs which must be 
revised. Emerson, Compensation. 
Revised version of the Bible. See version. Revising 
barrister, one of a number of barristers appointed to re- 
vise the list of voters for county and borough members of 
Parliament, and holding courts for this purpose through- 
out the country in the autumn. [Eng.] 
revise (re-viz'), n. [< revise, r.] 1. A revi- 
sion ; a review and correction. 
Patiently proceed 
With oft re-irises Making sober speed 
In dearest business, and obserue by proof 
That What is well done is done soon enough. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 1. 
5140 
2. In printing, a proof-sheet to VIP examined 
by the reviser. 
I at length reached a vaulted room, . . . and beheld. 
seated by a lamp, and employed in reading a blotted revue, 
. . . the Author of Waverley ! 
Scott, Fortunes of Nigel, Int. Ep., p. 5. 
I require to seeaproof, a revise, are-revise, and a double 
re-revise, or fourth proof rectified impression of all my pro- 
ductions, especially verse. O. W. Holmes, Autocrat, ii. 
reviser (re-vi'zer), . [< revise + -er*. Cf. 
revisor.] One who revises, reviews, or makes 
corrections or desirable changes, especially in 
a literary work; hence, specifically, iu 
one who revises proofs. Also revisor. 
The generality of my scheme does not admit the frequent 
notice of verbal inaccuracies . . . which he [Bentley] im- 
Euted to the obtrusions of a reciter, whom the author's 
lindness obliged him to employ. Johnson, Milton. 
revision (re-vizh'on), n. [< OF. revision, F. re- 
vision = Sp. revision = Pg. revisSo = It. revisione, 
< LL. revisio(n-), a seeing again, < L. revidere, 
pp. revisus, see again: see revise, review. ~\ 1. 
TTie act of revising; reexamination and correc- 
tion: as, the revision of statistics; the rerixinn 
of a book, of a creed, etc. 
I am persuaded that the stops have been misplaced in 
the Hebrew manuscripts, by the Jewish critics, upon the 
last revision of the text. Sp. Hartley, Sermons, I. viii. 
All male peasants in every part of the empire are in- 
scribed in census lists, which form the basis of the direct 
taxation. These lists are revised at irregular intervals, 
and all males alive at the time of the revision, from the 
new-born babe to the centenarian, are duly inscribed. 
D. M. Wallace, Russia, p. 123. 
2. That which is revised; a revised edition or 
version ; specifically [cap.], the revised English 
version of the Bible Council of Revision. See 
council. 
revisional (re-vizh'on-al), a. [< revision + 
-al.~] Re visionary. 
revisionary (re-vizh'on-a-ri), a. [< revision + 
-ary.~\ Of or pertaining to revision ; of the na- 
ture of a revision ; revising : as, a revisionary 
work. 
revisionist (re-vizh'ou-ist), n. [< revision + 
-int.] 1. One who favors or supports revision, 
as in the case of a creed or a statute. 2. A 
reviser ; specifically, one of the revisers of the 
English version of the Bible. See revised ver- 
sion of the Bible, under version. 
"I had rather speak," etc., 1 Corinthians xiv. 19. The 
Victorian revisionists are content with "had " there. 
Amer. Jour. PhUol.,11. 281. 
revisit (re-viz'it), r. t. [< OF. revisiter, F. re- 
risiter = Sp. Pg. revisktr = It. revisitare, < L. 
revisitare, visit again, < re-, again, + rat tore, 
visit: see visit, v."] 1. To visit again ; go back 
for a visit to ; return to. 
What may this mean, 
That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel 
Jievisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon ? 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 4. 53. 
Thou 
Revisifst not these eyes, that roll in vain 
To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn. 
Milton, P. L., iii. 23. 
2t. To revise ; review. 
Also they saye that ye haue not dilygently revisyted nor 
ouereene the letters patentes gyuen, accorded, sworne, and 
sealed by Kyng Johan. 
Berners, tr. of Froissart's Chron., n. ccxxii. 
revisit (re-viz'it), n. [< re- + visit.'] A visit 
to a former place of sojourn; also, a repeated 
or second visit. 
I have been to pay a Visit to St. James at Compostella, 
and after that to the famous Virgin on the other Side the 
Water in England ; and this was rather a revisit, for I had 
been to see her three Years before. 
N. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, II. 2. 
revisitant (re-viz'i-taut), a. [< LL. revisi- 
tan(t-)s, ppr. of revisitare, revisit: see revisit.'] 
Revisiting; returning, especially after long ab- 
sence or separation. 
Catching sight of a solitary acquaintance, (I) would ap- 
proach him amid the brown shadows of the trees a kind 
of medium fit for spirits departed and renisitant, like my- 
self. Han-thorne, Blithedale Romance, p. 242. 
revisitation (re-viz-i-ta'shon), n. [< re- + visi- 
tation.] The act of revisiting; a revisit. 
A regular concerted plan of periodical revisitation. 
J. A. Alexander, <Jn Mark vi. 6. 
revisor (re-vi'zor), . [= F. reviseur = Sp. Pg. 
revisor = It. revisore; as revise + -or 1 .] Same 
as reviser. 
revisory (re-vi'zo-ri), . [= Pg. revisorio; as 
>< r/Ar + -ury. Cf. Sp. revixoria, censorship.] 
Having power to revise ; effecting revision ; re- 
vising. 
revitalization (re-vl"tal-i-za'shou), w. [< ><- 
vitalize + -ation.'] The act or process of revi- 
talizing; the state of being revitalized, or in- 
formed with fresh life and vigor, 
revival 
revitalize (re-vi'tal-Iz), r. t. [< re- + vitalize.] 
To restore vitality or life to; inform again or 
anew with life; bring back to life. 
Professor Owen observes that " there are organisms . . . 
which we can devitalize and revitalize devive and revive 
many times." That such organisms can be revived, all 
will admit, but probably Professor Owen will be alone in 
not recognising considerable distinction between the 
words revitalizing and reviving. The animalcule that can 
be revived has never been dead, but that which is not 
dead cannot be revitalized. 
Beale, Protoplasm (3d ed.), p. 65. 
revittlet, r. An obsolete spelling of rericttial. 
reyivability (re-vi-va-bil'i-ti),'. [< revivable + 
-ity (see -biUty).] l''he character of being re- 
vivable ; the capacity for being revived. 
The revicability of past feelings varies inversely as the 
vividness of present feelings. 
H. Spencer, Prln. of Psycho!., 98. 
revivable (re-vi'va-bl), . [< revive + -able.'] 
Capable of being revived. 
Nor will the response of a sensory organ ... be an ex- 
perience, unless it be registered in a modification of struc- 
ture, and thus be revivable, because a statical condition is 
requisite for a dynamical manifestation. 
O. H. Lewet, Probs. of Life and Mind, I. i. % 12. 
revivably (re-vl'va-bli), adv. With a capacity 
for revival ; so as to admit of revival. 
What kind of agency can it then be ... that revivably 
stores up the memory of departed phenomena? 
Mind, IX. 350. 
revival (re-vi'val),. [< revive + -al.~] 1. The 
act of reviving',' or returning to life after actual 
or apparent death ; the act of bringing back to 
life ; also, the state of being so revived or re- 
stored : as, the revival of a drowned person ; the 
revival of a person from a swoon. 2. Resto- 
ration to former vigor, activity, or efficiency, 
after a period of languor, depression, or sus- 
pension; quickening; renewal: as, the revival 
of hope; the revival of one's spirits by good 
news ; a revival of trade. 
"I've thought of something," said the Rector, with a 
sudden rental of spirits. George Eliot, Felix Holt, xxiii. 
3. Restoration to general use, practice, accep- 
tance, or belief; the state of being currently 
known or received: as, the revival of learning 
in Europe; the revival of bygone fashions; spe- 
cifically [cup.], the Renaissance. 
The man to whom the literature of his country owes its 
origin and its revival was born in times singularly adapted 
to call forth his extraordinary powers. Macaulay, Dante. 
4. Specifically, an extraordinary awakening in 
a church or a community of interest in and care 
for matters relating to personal religion. 
There ought not to be much for a revival to do hi any 
church which has had the simple good news preached to 
it, and in which the heart and life and better motives have 
been affectionately and persistently addressed. 
Scribner's Mo., XIV. 256. 
A revival of religion merely makes manifest for a time 
what religion there is in a community, but it does not ex- 
alt men above their nature or above their times. 
B. B. Stoice, Oldtown, p. 469. 
5. The representation of something past; spe- 
cifically, in theatrical art, the reproduction of a 
play which has not been presented for a consid- 
erable time. 
One can hardly pause before it (a gateway of the seven- 
teenth century] without seeming to assist at a ten minutes' 
revival of old Italy. 
//. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 145. 
Some of Mr. 's revivals have been beautifully cos- 
tumed. The Century, XXXV. 644, note. 
6. In diem., same as revivification. 7. The re- 
instatement of an action or a suit after it has 
become abated, as, for instance, by the death of 
a party, when it may be revived by substituting 
the personal representative, if the cause of ac- 
tion has not abated. 8. That which is recalled 
to life, or to present existence or appearance. 
[Rare.] 
The place [Castle of Blois) is full of ... memories, of 
ghosts, of echoes, of possible evocations and revivals. 
H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 29. 
Anglo-Catholic revival, Catholic revival, a revival 
of Catholic or Anglo-Catholic principles and practices in 
the Chmch of England (see Anylo-Catholic, and Catholic. 
I., 3 (d)), also known, because begun in the University of 
Oxford, as the Oxford movement. It began in 1833, in op- 
position to an agitation for the expulsion of the bishops 
from the House of Lords and for the disestablishment of 
the Church of England. Its founder was H. J. Rose, with 
whom were joined Arthur Percival, Hurrel Froude, and 
William Palmer, and, a little later, John Henry Newman 
(originally an Evangelical) and John Keble, the publica- 
tion of whose "Christian Year" in 1S27 has been regarded 
:is an important precursor of the movement. In its earlier 
stage the promoters of the revival were known as Trac- 
tarutnx. (See Troctarian.) After Newman had, in 1845, 
abandoned the C'hurch of England and joined the Church 
of Eome.Dr. Edward B. Puseybecamegenerallyrecognized 
as the leader of the movement, and its adherents were 
nicknamed Pmeititf* by their opponents. The revival of 
