Find the word definition

Crossword clues for revised

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revised

Revise \Re*vise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revised; p. pr. & vb. n. Revising.] [F. reviser, fr. L. revidere, revisum, to see again; pref. re- re- + videre, visum, to see. See Review, View.]

  1. To look at again for the detection of errors; to re["e]xamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a translation.

  2. (Print.) 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.

  3. To review, alter, and amend; as, to revise statutes; to revise an agreement; to revise a dictionary.

    The Revised Version of the Bible, a version prepared in accordance with a resolution passed, in 1870, by both houses of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, England. Both English and American revisers were employed on the work. It was first published in a complete form in 1885, and is a revised form of the Authorized Version. See Authorized Version, under Authorized.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
revised

past participle adjective from revise. 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.

Wiktionary
revised

vb. (en-past of: revise)

WordNet
revised
  1. adj. improved or brought up to date; "a revised edition"

  2. altered or revised by rephrasing or by adding or deleting material; "the amended bill passed easily"

Usage examples of "revised".

But it was Runyon as revised by an absurdist writer in collaboration with a bleak existentialist.

State, as a condition of doing business within its jurisdiction, may exact a license tax from a telegraph company, a large part of whose business is the transmission of messages from one State to another and between the United States and foreign countries, and which is invested with the powers and privileges conferred by the act of Congress passed July 24, 1866, and other acts incorporated in Title LXV of the Revised Statutes?

And I was beginning to have revised thoughts about my good pal Bauhaus, who had set me up in less than palatial splendor.

Olga Carter-Fox heard this, she might have revised her opinion of Burgo Smyth, at any rate as a future protector of her husband.

Browne, Revised Translation of the Chahar Maqala, Cambridge and Leyden, 1921, pp.

He had revised his will the preceding spring, leaving Dolley the land, houses, his valuable papers-everything except a few legacies to be derived from the sale of his Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of z 787.

The old theses, la Tocqueville, of the continuity of administrative bodies across different social eras are thus profoundly revised when not completely discarded.

The Strasburg clergy, in losing him, wrote that he was unsurpassed among men, and the Genevese felt his superiority and put him on the commission which revised the Constitution.

Squadron D have to be revised if four of the twenty probed are either ecologically nonviable or prove to be failed colonies.

Regretfully Suzanne decided that there was no time for lovemaking, Five minutes later she revised her overhasty judgment.

On March 10th, 1858, delegates from twenty-five clubs of New York and Brooklyn met and organized the National Association of Base-ball Players, which for thirteen successive seasons annually revised the playing rules, and decided all disputes arising in base-ball.

I must schedule makeup classes for torts and for my seminar, which I am missing for this entire week, and still find time to finish the overdue revised draft of my article on mass tort litigation for the law review, which I originally planned to pursue this past weekend.

It was proposed that a revised edition should be prepared, and in spite of protests from those who had assisted the late Pontiff, and of the Spaniards, who saw the province of their Inquisition invaded, the thing was done, and what was called the Tridentine Index appeared at Rome in 1564.

The medical center down the road, however, got really nice finance terms from Citibank on their revised plans.

Wagner must have learnt between Das Rheingold and the Kaisermarsch that there are yet several dramas to be interpolated in The Ring after The Valkyries before the allegory can tell the whole story, and that the first of these interpolated dramas will be much more like a revised Rienzi than like Siegfried.