Dictionary entry

Review

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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. “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 reëxamine 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.