See also: Visé, vise, više, and vise-

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French visé, past participle of viser (to issue with a visa).

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Noun

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visé (plural visés)

  1. (archaic) visa.
    • 1839, A Hand-book for Travellers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Russia, page 117:
      A minister cannot make any direct charge for giving or viséing a passport (though his porter always takes care to ask for something), whereas the Russian consul always charges a dollar banco for every visé.
    • 1888 September 29, Henry James, “[The Modern Warning.] Chapter VI.”, in The Aspern Papers; Louisa Pallant; The Modern Warning, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
      [] promising her that he would not print a word to which her approval should not be expressly given. She should countersign every page before it went to press, and none should leave the house without her visé.

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visé (third-person singular simple present visés, present participle viséing, simple past and past participle viséed or viséd)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To examine and endorse (a passport, etc.); to visa.
    • 1872, Janet Millett, An Australian Parsonage, Ch. XI:
      [] unable to be abroad after ten at night, or to carry a gun, or to remove into another district without a written pass which must be visé on reaching a police-station.
    • 1897, Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 51, June, "World's Geologists at St. Petersburg":
      Russian consuls everywhere have been instructed to visé passports of geologists presenting membership cards, which will also facilitate matters at the frontier.
    • 1905, William Le Queux, The Czar's Spy, Ch. 10:
      Therefore, with my passport properly viséd and my papers all in order, I one night left Hull for Stockholm by the weekly Wilson service.

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Participle

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visé (feminine visée, masculine plural visés, feminine plural visées)

  1. past participle of viser

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visé

  1. to sign

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visé

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of visar