revisit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English revisite, from Middle French revisiter and Latin revīsitāre. By surface analysis, re + visit.
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Verb edit
revisit (third-person singular simple present revisits, present participle revisiting, simple past and past participle revisited)
- (transitive) To visit again.
- 1703, [Richard Blackmore], A Hymn to the Light of the World. With a Short Description of the Cartons of Raphael Urbin, in the Gallery at Hampton-Court, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 8:
- Thou, Kind Redeemer, toucht to ſee / So ſad a Sight, ſuch moving Miſery, / Didſt ſoon determine to diſpel / Theſe Shades of Death, and Gloom of Hell: / And ſo to reviſit with Thy Heav'nly Light / Loſt Man, bewilder'd in Infernal Night.
- 1960 February, “Motive Power Miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 122:
- On November 21 the restored Highland "Jones Goods" 4-6-0, No. 103, revisited its old haunts when it worked a Stephenson Locomotive Society special from Glasgow (Buchanan Street) to Blair Atholl and back; [...].
- (transitive) To reconsider or reexperience something.
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to visit again
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Noun edit
revisit (plural revisits)
- An act of revisiting; a second or subsequent visit. [from 17th c.]
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CDXLVI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
- On my revisit to the lady, I found her almost as much a sufferer of joy as she had sometimes been from grief […] .
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Verb edit
revīsit