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Meanings of revisal in English

Portuguese
revisão

The act of rewriting something.

revisão
Usage of revisal in English
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Connected with this subject, I must recommend a revisal of our consular laws.
State of the Union Addresses
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You may by revisal and improvement make it a very elegant and curious work.
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin...
3
For this purpose those of the civil Government, the Army, and Navy will need revisal.
State of the Union Addresses
4
I could now wish that a pause, an interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
5
This revisal or correction is a constant force, which, as a tendency, reaches through our lifetime.
Essays — First Series
6
Pope has left nothing behind him, which seems more the effect of studious perseverance and laborious revisal.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 08 / ...
7
The sentence which had been executed against Prynne, Bastwic, and Burton, now suffered a revisal from parliament.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part E. / From...
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When my last letters came away, they were engaged in passing the revisal of their laws, with some small alterations.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
9
After a last revisal I consulted with Mr. Mallet and Dr. Maty, who approved the design and promoted the execution.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
10
The theory, neither of the British, nor the State constitutions, authorizes the revisal of a judicial sentence by a legislative act.
The Federalist Papers
11
The book of common prayer suffered in England a new revisal, and some rites and ceremonies which had given offence were omitted.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part C. / From...
12
We should never substitute, beyond the power of revisal, the opinion of a past generation for the opinion of a living generation.
Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions
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I fear that your MSS., and I mean your sermons now, would suffer by any other revisal and publication than your own.
Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. / Edited by His...
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Soon after my publication of this work, I began to prepare it for a second edition, by an accurate revisal of the first.
The Iliad of Homer / Translated into English Blank Verse by Will...
15
The act changing the course of descents, and giving the inheritance to all the children, &c. equally, I drew as part of the revisal.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
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Having since that received some copies of the revisal of our laws, of which you had desired one, I now send it to you.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
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Portuguese
revisão
Revisal through the time