revisit

English

Etymology

From Middle English revisite, from Middle French revisiter and Latin revīsitāre. By surface analysis, re +‎ visit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈvɪzɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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  Rhymes: -ɪzɪt

Verb

revisit (third-person singular simple present revisits, present participle revisiting, simple past and past participle revisited)

1. (transitive) To visit again.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], signature C3, recto:

     [W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules?

   • 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; [...].

2. (transitive) To reconsider or reexperience something.

Translations

to visit again

• Italian: rivisitare (it)
• Latin: revīsō

to reconsider or re-experience something

• Latin: revīsō
• Spanish: revisitar (es)

Noun

revisit (plural revisits)

1. 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: […], volume (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 […] .

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: revisita (es) f

Derived terms

• revisit time

Anagrams

• Viteris, visiter

Latin

Verb

revīsit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of revīsō