Hypertext Webster Gateway: "review"

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

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.

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

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

2. An examination with a view to amendment or improvement;
revision; as, an author's review of his works.

3. A critical examination of a publication, with remarks; a
criticism; a critique.

4. A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of
interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.

5. An inspection, as of troops under arms or of a naval
force, by a high officer, for the purpose of ascertaining
the state of discipline, equipments, etc.

6. (Law) The judicial examination of the proceedings of a
lower court by a higher.

7. A lesson studied or recited for a second time.

{Bill of review} (Equity), a bill, in the nature of
proceedings in error, filed to procure an examination and
alteration or reversal of a final decree which has been
duly signed and enrolled. --Wharton.

{Commission of review} (Eng. Eccl. Law), a commission
formerly granted by the crown to revise the sentence of
the court of delegates.

Syn: Re["e]xamination; resurvey; retrospect; survey;
reconsideration; revisal; revise; revision.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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