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revisit

verb

  1. visit again, examine an issue again
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈvɪzɪt/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English revisite, from Middle French revisiter and Latin revīsitāre. By surface analysis, re- + visit.

  1. An act of revisiting; a second or subsequent visit.

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

verb

Etymology: From Middle English revisite, from Middle French revisiter and Latin revīsitāre. By surface analysis, re- + visit.

  1. To visit again.

    [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?

    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.

  2. To reconsider or reexperience something.