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Revisit (?), v. t. 1. To visit again. Milton.
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2. To revise. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.
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Revisitation (?), n. The act of revisiting.
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Revisory (?), a. Having the power or purpose to revise; revising. Story.
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Revitalize (?), v. t. To restore vitality to; to bring back to life. L. S. Beale.
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Revivable (?), a. That may be revived.
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Revival (?), n. [From .] The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. Specifically: (a) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature. (b) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature. (c) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest. (d) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like. (e) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture. (f) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion. (g) (Law) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc. (h) Revivification, as of a metal. See , 2.
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Revivalism (?), n. The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.
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Revivalist, n. A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively.
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Revivalistic (?), a. Pertaining to revivals.
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Revive (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revived (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Reviving.] [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- + vivere to live. See .] 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak.
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The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. 1 Kings xvii. 22.
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2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
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3. (Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
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Revive, v. t. [Cf. F. reviver. See , v. i.] 1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
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Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived. Bp. Pearson.
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2. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
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Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts. Shak.
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Your coming, friends, revives me. Milton.
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3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
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4. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. “Revive the libels born to die.” Swift.
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The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had. Locke.
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5. (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
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Revivement (?), n. Revival. [R.]
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Reviver (?), n. One who, or that which, revives.
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Revivificate (?), v. t. [Pref. re- + vivificate: cf. L. revivificare, revivificatum. Cf. .] To revive; to recall or restore to life. [R.]
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Revivification (?), n. [Cf. F. révivification.] 1. Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recalling, or the state of being recalled, to life.
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2. (Old Chem.) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.
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Revivify (?), v. t. [Cf. F. révivifier, L. revivificare. See .] To cause to revive.
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Some association may revivify it enough to make it flash, after a long oblivion, into consciousness. Sir W. Hamilton.
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Reviving (?), a. & n. Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating. Milton. -- Revivingly, adv.
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{ Reviviscence (?), Reviviscency (?), } n. The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life.
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In this age we have a sort of reviviscence, not, I fear, of the power, but of a taste for the power, of the early times. Coleridge.
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Reviviscent (?), a. [L. reviviscens, p. pr. ofreviviscere to revive; pref. re- re- + viviscere, v. incho. fr. vivere to live.] Able or disposed to revive; reviving. E. Darwin.
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Revivor (?), n. (Eng. Law) Revival of a suit which is abated by the death or marriage of any of the parties, -- done by a bill of revivor. Blackstone.
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Revocability (?), n. The quality of being revocable; as, the revocability of a law.
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Revocable (?), a. [L. revocabilis: cf. F. révocable. See .] Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant.
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-- Revocableness, n. -- Revocably, adv.
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Revocate (?), v. t. [L. revocatus, p. p. of revocare. See .] To recall; to call back. [Obs.]
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Revocation (?), n. [L. revocatio: cf. F. révocation.] 1. The act of calling back, or the state of being recalled; recall.
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One that saw the people bent for the revocation of Calvin, gave him notice of their affection. Hooker.
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2. The act by which one, having the right, annuls an act done, a power or authority given, or a license, gift, or benefit conferred; repeal; reversal; as, the revocation of an edict, a power, a will, or a license.
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Revocatory (?), a. [L. revocatorius: cf. F. révocatoire.] Of or pertaining to revocation; tending to, or involving, a revocation; revoking; recalling.
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Revoice (?), v. t. To refurnish with a voice; to refit, as an organ pipe, so as to restore its tone.
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Revoke (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revoked (?);p. pr. & vb. n. Revoking.] [F. révoquer, L. revocare; pref. re- re- + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice. See , and cf. .] 1. To call or bring back; to recall. [Obs.]
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The faint sprite he did revoke again,
To her frail mansion of morality. Spenser.
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2. Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like. Shak.
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3. To hold back; to repress; to restrain. [Obs.]
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[She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke. Spenser.
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4. To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.] Spenser.
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5. To call back to mind; to recollect. [Obs.]
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A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoris to his conscience. South.
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Syn. -- To abolish; recall; repeal; rescind; countermand; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See .
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Revoke (?), v. i. (Card Playing) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. Hoyle.
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Revoke, n. (Card Playing) The act of revoking.
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She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke. Lamb.
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Revokement (?), n. Revocation. [R.] Shak.
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Revoker (?), n. One who revokes.
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Revokingly, adv. By way of revocation.
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Revolt (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Revolting.] [Cf. F. révoller, It. rivoltare. See , n.] 1. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
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But this got by casting pearl to hogs,
That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood,
And still revolt when trith would set them free. Milton.
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His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time. J. Morley.
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2. Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel.
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Our discontented counties do revolt. Shak.
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Plant those that have revolted in the van. Shak.
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3. To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.
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Revolt, v. t. 1. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight. [Obs.] Spenser.
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2. To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.
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This abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds. Burke.
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To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creatuure revolted his conscience and offended his reason. J. Morley.
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Revolt, n. [F. révolte, It. rivolta, fr. rivolto, p. p. fr. L. revolvere, revolutum. See .] 1. The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.
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Who first seduced them to that foul revolt? Milton.
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2. A revolter. [Obs.] “Ingrate revolts.” Shak.
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Syn. -- Insurrection; sedition; rebellion; mutiny. See .
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Revolter (?), n. One who revolts.
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Revolting, a. Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty. -- Revoltingly, adv.
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Revoluble (?), a. [L. revolubilis that may be rolled back. See .] Capable of revolving; rotatory; revolving. [Obs.]
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Us, then, to whom the thrice three year
Hath filled his revoluble orb since our arrival here,
I blame not. Chapman.
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Revolute (?), a. [L. revolutus, p. p. of revolvere. See .] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Rolled backward or downward.
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☞ A revolute leaf is coiled downwards, with the lower surface inside the coil. A leaf with revolute margins has the edges rolled under, as in the Andromeda polifilia.
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Revolution (?), n. [F. révolution, L. revolutio. See .] 1. The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.
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2. Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.
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That fear
Comes thundering back, with dreadful revolution,
On my defenseless head. Milton.
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3. The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time, or by a succession of similar events. “The short revolution of a day.” Dryden.
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4. (Astron.) The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according as the point of return or completion has a fixed relation to the year, the anomaly, the nodes, the stars, or the tropics; as, the revolution of the earth about the sun; the revolution of the moon about the earth.
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☞ The term is sometimes applied in astronomy to the motion of a single body, as a planet, about its own axis, but this motion is usually called rotation.
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5. (Geom.) The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere.
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6. A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.
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The ability . . . of the great philosopher speedily produced a complete revolution throughout the department. Macaulay.
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7. (Politics) A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another, by the governed.
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The violence of revolutions is generally proportioned to the degree of the maladministration which has produced them. Macaulay.
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☞ When used without qualifying terms, the word is often applied specifically, by way of eminence, to: (a) The English Revolution in 1689, when William of Orange and Mary became the reigning sovereigns, in place of James II. (b) The American Revolution, beginning in 1775, by which the English colonies, since known as the United States, secured their independence. (c) The revolution in France in 1789, commonly called the French Revolution, the subsequent revolutions in that country being designated by their dates, as the Revolution of 1830, of 1848, etc.
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Revolutionary (?), a. [Cf. F. révolutionnaire.] Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.
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Revolutionary, n. A revolutionist. [R.]
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Dumfries was a Tory town, and could not tolerate a revolutionary. Prof. Wilson.
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Revolutioner (?), n. One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist. Smollett.
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Revolutionism (?), n. The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.
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Revolutionist, n. One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution. Burke.
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Revolutionize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revolutioniezed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Revolutionizing(?).] To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government. Ames.
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The gospel . . . has revolutionized his soul. J. M. Mason.
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Revolutive (?), a. Inclined to revolve things in the mind; meditative. [Obs.] Feltham.
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Revolvable (?), a. That may be revolved.
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Revolve (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revolved(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Revolving.] [L. revolvere, revolutum; pref. re- re- + volvere to roll, turn round. See , and cf. , .] 1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.
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If the earth revolve thus, each house near the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. I. Watts.
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2. To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun.
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3. To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve.
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4. To return; to pass. [R.] Ayliffe.
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Revolve, v. t. 1. To cause to turn, as on an axis.
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Then in the east her turn she shines,
Revolved on heaven's great axile. Milton.
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2. Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of.
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This having heard, straight I again revolved
The law and prophets. Milton.
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Revolvement (?), n. Act of revolving. [R.]
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Revolvency (?), n. The act or state of revolving; revolution. [Archaic]
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Its own revolvency upholds the world. Cowper.
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Revolver (?), n. One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater.
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Revolving, a. Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the revolution of the earth.
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But grief returns with the revolving year. Shelley.
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Revolving seasons, fruitless as they pass. Cowper.
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Coloq. Revolving firearm . See . -- Coloq. Revolving light , a light or lamp in a lighthouse so arranged as to appear and disappear at fixed intervals, either by being turned about an axis so as to show light only at intervals, or by having its light occasionally intercepted by a revolving screen.
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Revulse (?), v. t. [L. revulsus, p. p. of revellere.] To pull back with force. [R.] Cowper.
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Revulsion (?), n. [F. révulsion, L. revulsio, fr. revellere, revulsum, to pluck or pull away; pref. re- re- + vellere to pull. Cf. .] 1. A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal. “Revulsions and pullbacks.” SSir T. Brovne.
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2. A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change; -- applied to the feelings.
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A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the Parliament and the country, followed. Macaulay.
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3. (Med.) The act of turning or diverting any disease from one part of the body to another. It resembles derivation, but is usually applied to a more active form of counter irritation.
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Revulsive (?), a. [Cf. F. révulsif.] Causing, or tending to, revulsion.
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Revulsive, n. That which causes revulsion; specifically (Med.), a revulsive remedy or agent.
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Rew (?), n. [See a series.] A row. [Obs.] Chaucer. “A rew of sundry colored stones.” Chapman.
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Rewake (?), v. t. & i. To wake again.
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