Review /(?)/
Re·view
Review
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Reviewed; p. pr. & vb. n. Reveiwing
- To view or see again; to look back on. [R.]
- To go over and examine critically or deliberately. (Law)
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To retrace; to go over again.
Shall I the long, laborious scene review?
Review
v. i.
- To look back; to make a review.
Review
n.
- A second or repeated view; a reexamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life.
- An examination with a view to amendment or improvement; revision; as, an author's review of his works.
- A critical examination of a publication, with remarks; a criticism; a critique.
- A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.
- 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.
- The judicial examination of the proceedings of a lower court by a higher. (Law)
- A lesson studied or recited for a second time.
Phrases & Compounds
- Bill of review
- 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.
- Commission of review
- a commission formerly granted by the crown to revise the sentence of the court of delegates.