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revising


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  revising 
  n  :  editing  that  involves  writing  something  again  [syn:  {rewriting}] 




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