Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Reveiwing"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Review \Re*view"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Review?d}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Reveiwing}.] [Pref. re- + view. Cf. {Review}, n. ]
1. To view or see again; to look back on. [R.] ``I shall
review Sicilia.'' --Shak.

2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately.
Specifically:
(a) To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before
printing it, or a book for a new edition.
(b) To go over with critical examination, in order to
discover exellences or defects; hence, to write a
critical notice of; as, to review a new novel.
(c) To make a formal or official examination of the state
of, as troops, and the like; as, to review a regiment.
(d) (Law) To re["e]xamine judically; as, a higher court
may review the proceedings and judgments of a lower
one.

3. To retrace; to go over again.

Shall I the long, laborious scene review? --Pope.


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