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REVE'RSIBtE, adj. [reversible , Fr.] Capable of being 
reversed.—If the judgment be given by him that hath au¬ 
thority, and it be erroneous, it was at common law reversi¬ 
ble by writ of error. Hale. 
REVE'RSELY, adj. On the other hand; on the op¬ 
posite.—That is properly credible, which is not apparent of 
itself, nor certainly to be collected, either antecedently by 
its cause, or reversely by its effect, and yet, though by none 
of these ways, hath the attestation of a truth. Pearson. 
REVE'RSION, s. The state of being to be possessed 
after the death of the present possessor. 
As were our England in reversion his, 
And he our subjects next degree in hope. Shakspeare. 
Succession; right of succession.—He was very old, and 
had out-lived most "of his friends; many persons of quality 
being dead, who had, for recompence of services, procured 
the reversion of his office. Clarendon. 
Reversion is defined by Coke, a returning of lands, &c. 
into the possession of the donor or his heirs, after the ex¬ 
piration of the term for which they were given or granted to 
another. Or, an estate in reversion, is the residue of an 
estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after 
the determination of some particular estate granted out by 
him. 
The difference between a reversion and a remainder con¬ 
sists in this, that a remainder is general, and may remain or 
belong to any man but him that granteth or conveyeth the 
land, &c. 
REVE'RSIONARY, adj. To be enjoyed in succession. 
—There are multitudes of reversionary patents and rever¬ 
sionary promises of preferments. Arbuthnot. 
REVE'RSIONER, s. One who has a reversion.—A 
Scire facias brought against Mr. Ware would presently vacate 
his patent; but then there will be a clamour, in regard the 
office will not fall to the king, but to the reversioner. 
Henry. 
To REVE'RT, v. a. [reverto, Lat.] To change; to 
turn to the contrary. 
Wretched her subjects, gloomy sits the queen, 
Till happy chance revert the cruel scene; 
And apish folly, with her wild resort 
Of wit and jest, disturbs the solemn court. Prior. 
To reverberate. 
The stream boils 
Around the stone, or from the hollo w’d bank 
Reverted plays in undulating flow. Thomson. 
To REVE'RT, v. n. [ revertir , old Fr.] To return; to 
fall back. 
My arrows, 
Too slightly timbred for so loud a wind, * 
Would have reverted to my bow again. Shakspeare. 
REVE'RT, s. Return; recurrence. A musical term.— 
Hath not musick her figures the same with rhetorick ? what 
is a revert but her antistrophe? Peacham. 
REVE'RTIBLE, adj. Returnable. 
REVE'RTIVE, adj. Changing; turning to the con¬ 
trary. 
He taught 
Why now the mighty mass of water swells 
Resistless, heaving on the broken rocks. 
And the full river turning, till again 
The tide revertive, unattracted, leaves 
A yellow waste of idle sands behind. Thomson. 
REVERY', see Reverie. 
REVES (James de), a learned Dutch Protestant divine 
and professor, the son of a Dutch burgomaster of Deventer, 
was bom in 1586. While he was very young he was taken 
to Amsterdam, where he was instructed in the Latin, Greek, 
and French languages, and then sent to pursue his studies at 
the university of Leyden. From this place he removed to 
the university of Franeker, where he learned the Hebrew 
under the two Drusiuses. In 1610 he travelled into France 
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for farther improvement, where he resided two years, chiefly 
at Saumur, Rochelle, and Orleans. He next entered upon 
the duties of the Christian ministry, and was, in 1641, chosen 
principal and first professor of the theological college of the 
states of Holland and West Friesland at Leyden. He died 
at Leyden in 1658, at the age of 72. His works are very 
numerous, of which the titles are given in the General Bio¬ 
graphy: among these may be mentioned, “ Belgicarum 
Ecclesiasticarum Doctrina et Ordo,” &c.; “ Historia Ponti- 
ficum Romanorum contracta, et ad Annum 1632 contracta;” 
“ Daventriao illustrates, sive Historic Urbis Daventriensis, 
Lib. vi.” 1651, 4to. De Reves published an improved edition 
of £< The Book of Psalms,” in Dutch verse, by Peter Dathae- 
nus, and he was concerned in revising the Dutch version 
of the Old Testament, which was printed at Leyden in 
1637. 
REVESBY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 6| miles 
south-south-east of Horncastle. Population 565. 
To REVE'ST, v. a [revestio, Lat.] To clothe again. 
Her, nathless, 
The enchanter finding fit for his intents, 
Did thus revest, and deckt with due habiliments. Spenser. 
REVE'STIARY, s. [revestio , Lat.] Place where 
dresses are reposited.—The effectual power of words the 
Pythagoreans extolled; the impious Jews ascribed all mi¬ 
racles to a name, which was ingraved in the revestiary of 
the temple. Camden. 
REVETEMENT, in Fortification, is a strong wall built 
on the outside of the rampart and parapet, to support the 
earth, and prevent its rolling into the ditch. 
REVI'CTION, s. [revictum , Lat.] Return to life.—Do 
we live to see a reviction of the old Sadducism, so long since 
dead and forgotten. Tip. Hall. 
To REVIC'TUAL, v. a. To stock with victuals again. 
—It hath been objected, that I put into Ireland, and spent 
much time there, taking care to revictual myself and none of 
the rest. Ralegh. 
To REVI'E, v. a. [See To Vie.] To accede to the 
proposal of a stake, and to overtop it: an old phrase at cards. 
“ A. Mingle the cards. S. Sir, I bid, do you hold it? A. 
Yes, sir, I accept it, and bid yet.” Wodrqephe’s Fr. 
Gramm. — A. What shall we play for? S. One shilling 
stake, and three rest. I vye it; will you houldit? A. 
Yea, sir, I hould it, and revye it. Florio. 
To REVI'E, v. n. To return the challenge of a wager 
at cards; to make any retort.—We must not permit vying 
and revying upon one another. Chief Justice, in the Trial 
of seven Bishops. 
To REVIEW, v. a. To look back. 
So swift he flies, that his reviewing eye 
Has lost the chasers, and his ear the cry. Denham. 
To see again. 
I shall review Sicilia, for whose sight 
I have a woman’s longing. Shakspeare. 
To consider over again; to re-examine.'—Segrasis says, 
that the iEneid is an imperfect work, and that death preven¬ 
ted the divine poet from reviewing it; and, for that reason, 
he had condemned it to the fire. Dry den. —To retrace. 
Shall I the long laborious scene review. 
And open all the wounds of Greece anew ? Pope. 
To survey; to overlook; to examine. 
REVIEW, s. Survey; re-examination.—The works of 
nature will bear a thousand views and reviews; the more 
narrowly we look into them, the more occasion we shall 
have to admire. Atterbury .—A periodical publication, 
giving an analysis of books, a character of them, and re¬ 
marks upon them.—The Monthly Review is the earliest of the 
name. The king asked him [Dr. Johnson] if there were any 
other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the 
monthly and critical reviews ; and on being answered there 
were no other (viz. in 1767) his majesty asked him which 
of them was the best. Conv. in Boswell's Life of Johnson 
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