revisit

present singular third person revisits · participle present revisiting · participle past revisited · past revisited

1. transitiveTo visit again.

   On November 21 the restored Highland "Jones Goods" 4-6-0, No. 103, revisited its old haunts when it worked a Stephenson Locomotive Society special from Glasgow (Buchanan Street) to Blair Atholl and back; [...].

   1960 February, “Motive Power Miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 122

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   [W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules?

   c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], signature C3, recto

   Thou, Kind Redeemer, toucht to ſee / So ſad a Sight, ſuch moving Miſery, / Didſt ſoon determine to diſpel / Theſe Shades of Death, and Gloom of Hell: / And ſo to reviſit with Thy Heav'nly Light / Loſt Man, bewilder'd in Infernal Night.

   1703, [Richard Blackmore], A Hymn to the Light of the World. With a Short Description of the Cartons of Raphael Urbin, in the Gallery at Hampton-Court, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 8

2. transitiveTo reconsider or reexperience something.

plural revisits

1. An act of revisiting; a second or subsequent visit.First known use 17th c.

   On my revisit to the lady, I found her almost as much a sufferer of joy as she had sometimes been from grief […].

   1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CDXLVI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC