Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 60
Revising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revise.
Revise (v. t.) (v. t.) 修訂；校訂；修改，修正 (v. i.) 修訂；校訂；【主英】複習功課 [（+for）] To look at again for the detection of errors; to reexamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a translation.
Revise (v. t.) To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type.
Revise (v. t.) To review, alter, and amend; as, to revise statutes; to revise an agreement; to revise a dictionary.
{The Revised Version of the Bible}, A version prepared in accordance with a resolution passed, in 1870, by both houses of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, England. Both English and American revisers were employed on the work. It was first published in a complete form in 1885, and is a revised form of the Authorized Version. See {Authorized Version}, under {Authorized}.
Revise (n.) The act of rewriting something [syn: {revision}, {revisal}, {revise}, {rescript}].
Revise (n.) Make revisions in; "revise a thesis".
Revise (n.) Revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving; "We must retool the town's economy" [syn: {retool}, {revise}].
Revise (n.) [C] 修訂；校訂；【印】再校樣，二校樣 A review; a revision.
Revise (n.) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.
Revise (v.) (Change) (B2) [ T ] 修訂；修正；修改 To look at or consider again an idea, piece of writing, etc. in order to correct or improve it.
// His helpfulness today has made me revise my original opinion/ impression of him.
// His publishers made him revise his manuscript three times.
Revise (v.) (Study) (B1) [ I or T ] (UK) (US review) 復習；溫習 To study again something you have already learned, in preparation for an exam.
// We're revising (algebra) for the test tomorrow.
Reviser (n.) 校訂者；修正者 One who revises.
Revision (n.) 修訂；校訂；修正 [U] [C]；修訂本，訂正版 [C] The act of revising; reexamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.
Revision (n.) That which is made by revising.
Revision (n.) A release of a piece of software which is not a major release or a bug fix, but only introduces small changes or new features.
Revision (n.) The act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification); "it would require a drastic revision of his opinion" [syn: {revision}, {alteration}].
Revision (n.) The act of rewriting something [syn: {revision}, {revisal}, {revise}, {rescript}].
Revision (n.) Something that has been written again; "the rewrite was much better" [syn: {rewrite}, {revision}, {rescript}].
Revision (n.) (Change) [ C or U ] 修正過的；經過修改的 A change that is made to something, or the process of doing this.
// These proposals will need a lot of revision.
// He was forced to make several revisions to his speech.
Revision (n.) (Study) 複習；溫習 (B1) [ U ] (UK) Study of work you have done, in order to prepare for an exam.
// She did no revision, but she still got a very high mark.
Revisional (a.) 校訂的；修正的 Alt. of Revisionary
Revisionary (a.) 校訂的；修正的 Of or pertaining to revision; revisory.
Revisit (v. t.) 再訪；重遊；重臨 To visit again. -- Milton.
Revisit (v. t.) To revise. [Obs.] -- Ld. Berners.
Revisit (v.) Visit again; "We revisited Rome after 25 years".
Revisitation (n.) The act of revisiting.
Revisory (a.) 校正的；修正的；修訂的；有修正權的 Having the power or purpose to revise; revising. -- Story.
Revitalize (v. t.) 使恢復生氣；使復活；使復興 To restore vitality to; to bring back to life. -- L. S. Beale.
Revitalize (v.) Restore strength; "This food revitalized the patient" [syn: regenerate, revitalize].
Revitalize (v.) Give new life or vigor to [syn: revitalize, revitalise].
Revivable (a.) 可復活的；可復興的 That may be revived.
Revival (n.) 甦醒；復活；再生 [C][ U]；復興，再流行 [C] [U] The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. Specifically:
Revival (n.) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.
Revival (n.) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature.
Revival (n.) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
Revival (n.) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like.
Revival (n.) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.
Revival (n.) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
Revival (n.) (Law) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc.
Revival (n.) Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.
Revival (n.) Bringing again into activity and prominence; "the revival of trade"; "a revival of a neglected play by Moliere"; "the Gothic revival in architecture" [syn: revival, resurgence, revitalization, revitalisation, revivification].
Revival (n.) An evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in religion [syn: revival, revival meeting].
Revival, () Contracts. An agreement to renew the legal obligation of a just debt, after it has been barred by the act of limitation or lapse of time, is called its revival. Vide Promise.
Revival (), Practice. The act by which a judgment, which has lain dormant or without any action upon it for a year and a day is, at common law, again restored to its original force.
Revivalism (n.) （宗教的）信仰復興運動；（舊習慣、制度等的）復古傾向 The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.
Revivalism (n.) An attempt to reawaken the evangelical faith.
Revivalist (n.) 信仰復興運動者；復古主義者 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.
Revivalist (n.) A preacher of the Christian gospel [syn: evangelist, revivalist, gospeler, gospeller].
Revivalistic (a.) Pertaining to revivals.
Revivalistic (a.) Of or relating to or characterizing revivalism.
Revived (imp. & p. p.) of Revive.
Reviving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revive.
Revive (v. i.) 甦醒；復甦；恢復精力，復元；恢復生機 To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. -- Shak.
The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. -- 1 Kings xvii. 22.
Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
Revive (v. i.) (Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
Revive (v. t.) 使甦醒；使復甦；使恢復精力，使復元；使恢復生機 To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived. -- Bp. Pearson.
Revive (v. t.) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts. -- Shak.
Your coming, friends, revives me. -- Milton.
Revive (v. t.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
Revive (v. t.) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. "Revive the libels born to die." -- Swift.
The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had. -- Locke.
Revive (v. t.) (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
Revive (v.) Cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the comatose man" [syn: resuscitate, revive].
Revive (v.) Give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify].
Revive (v.) Be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength; "Interest in ESP revived".
Revive (v.) Restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state; "He revived this style of opera"; "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina" [syn: revive, resurrect].
Revive (v.) Return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection" [syn: come to, revive, resuscitate].
Revive () practice. When a judgment is more than a day and a year old, no execution can issue upon it at common law; but till it has been paid, or the presumption arises from lapse of time, that it has been satisfied, it may be revived and have all its original force, which was merely suspended. This may be done by a scire facias, or an action of debt on the judgment. Vide Scire facias; Wakening.
Revivement (n.) Revival. [R.]
Reviver (n.) One who, or that which, revives.
Revivificate (v. t.) To revive; to recall or restore to life. [R.]
Revivification (n.) 復活；恢復；恢復氣力；還原 Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recalling, or the state of being recalled, to life.
Revivification (n.) (Old. Chem.) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.
Revivification (n.) Bringing again into activity and prominence; "the revival of trade"; "a revival of a neglected play by Moliere"; "the Gothic revival in architecture" [syn: revival, resurgence, revitalization, revitalisation, revivification].
Revivify (v. t.) To cause to revive.
Some association may revivify it enough to make it flash, after a long oblivion, into consciousness. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Revivify (v.) Give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify].
Reviving (a. & n.) Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating. -- Milton. -- Re*viv"ing*ly, adv. Reviviscence
Reviving (a.) Tending to impart new life and vigor to; "the renewing warmth of the sunshine" [syn: renewing, restorative, reviving, revitalizing, revitalising].
Reviviscence (n.) Alt. of Reviviscency.
Reviviscency (n.) The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life.
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.
Reviviscent (a.) Able or disposed to revive; reviving. -- E. Darwin.
Revivor (n.) (Eng. Law) Revival of a suit which is abated by the deaths, -- done by a bill of revivor. -- Blackstone.
Revocability (n.) 可撤回；可撤銷；可解除 The quality of being revocable; as, the revocability of a law.
Revocable (a.) Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant. -- Rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Rev"o*ca*bly, adv.
Revocable (a.) Capable of being revoked or annulled; "a revocable order" [syn: revocable, revokable] [ant: irrevocable, irrevokable].
Revocate (v. t.) To recall; to call back. [Obs.]
Revocation (n.) 廢止；撤回 The act of calling back, or the state of being recalled; recall.
One that saw the people bent for the revocation of Calvin, gave him notice of their affection. -- Hooker.
Revocation (n.) 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.
Revocation (n.) The state of being cancelled or annulled [syn: revocation, annulment].
Revocation (n.) The act (by someone having the authority) of annulling something previously done; "the revocation of a law".
Revocation () The act by which a person having authority, calls back or annuls a power, gift, or benefit, which had been bestowed upon another. For example, a testator may revoke his testament; a constituent may revoke his letter of attorney; a grantor may revoke a grant made by him, when he has reserved the power in the deed.
Revocation () Revocations are expressed or implied. An express revocation of a will must be as formal as the will itself. 2 Dall. 289; 2 Yeates, R. 170. But this is not the rule in all the states. See 2 Conn. Rep. 67; 2 Nott & McCord, Rep. 485; 14 Mass. 208; 1 Harr. & McHenry, R. 409; Cam. & Norw. Rep. 174 2 Marsh. Rep. 17.
Revocation () Implied revocations take place, by marriage and birth of a child, by the English law. 4 Johns. Ch. R. 506, and the cases there cited by Chancellor Kent. 1 Wash. Rep. 140; 3 Call, Rep. 341; Cooper's Just. 497, and the cases there cited. In Pennsylvania, marriage or birth of a child, is a revocation as to them. 3 Binn. 498. A woman's will is revoked by her subsequent marriage, if she dies "before her husband. Cruise, Dig. tit. 38, c. 6, s. 51.
Revocation () An alienation of the estate by the devisor has the same effect of revoking a will. 1 Roll. Ab. 615. See generally, as to revoking wills, Lovelass on Wills, oh. 3, p. 177 Fonb. Eq. c. 2, s. 1; Robertson Wills, ch. 2, part 1.
Revocation () Revocation of wills may be effected, 1. By cancellation or obliteration. 2. By a subsequent testamentary disposition. 3. By an express revocation contained in a will or codicil, or in any other distinct writing. 4. By the republication of a prior will; by presumptive or implied revocation. Williams on Wills, 67; 3 Lom. on Ex'rs, 59. Vide Domat, Loix Civ. liv. 3, t. 1, s. 5.
Revocation () The powers and authority of an attorney or agent may be revoked or determined by the acts of the principal; by the acts of the attorney or agent; and by operation of law.
Revocation () By the acts of the principal, which may be express or implied. An express revocation is made by a direct and formal and public declaration, or by an informal writing, or by parol. An implied revocation takes place when such circumstances occur as manifest the intention of the principal to revoke the authority; such, for example, as the appointment of another agent or attorney to perform acts which are incompatible with the exercise of the power formerly given to another; but this presumption arises only when there is such incompatibility, for if the original agent has a general authority, and the second only a special power, the revocation will only operate pro tanto. The performance by the principal himself of the act which he has authorized to be done by his attorney, is another example; as, if the authority be to collect a debt, and afterwards the principal receive it himself.
Revocation () The renunciation of the agency by the attorney will have the same effect to determine the authority.
Revocation () A revocation of an authority takes place by operation of law. This may be done in various ways: 1st. When the agency terminates by lapse of time; as, when it is created to endure for a year, it expires at the end of that period; or when a letter of attorney is given to transact the constituent's business during his absence, the power ceases on his return. Poth. du Mandat, n. 119; Poth. Ob. n. 500.
Revocation () When a change of condition of the principal takes place so that he is rendered incapable of performing the act himself, the power he has delegated to another to do it must cease. Liverm. Ag. 306; 8 Wheat. R, 174. If an unmarried woman give a power of attorney and afterwards marry, the marriage does, ipso facto, operate as a revocation of the authority; 2 Kent, Com. 645, 3d edit. Story Bailm. Sec. 206; Story, Ag. Sec. 481; 5 East, R. 206; or if the principal become insane, at least after the establishment of the insanity by an inquisition. 8 Wheat. R. 174, 201 to 204. When the principal becomes a bankrupt, his power of attorney in relation to property or rights of which he was divested by the bankruptcy, is revoked by operation of law. 2 Kent, Com. 644, 3d edit.; 16 East, R. 382.
Revocation () The death of the principal will also have the effect of a revocation of the authority. Co. Litt. 52; Paley, Ag. by Lloyd, 185; 2 Liverm. Ag. 301; Story, Ag. Sec. 488; Story, Bailm. Sec. 203; Bac. Ab. Authority, E; 2 Kent, Com. 454, 3d edit.; 3 Chit. Com. Law, 223.
Revocation () When the condition of the agent or attorney has so changed as to render him incapable to perform his obligation towards the principal. When a married woman is prohibited by her husband from the exercise of an authority given to her, it thereby determines. When the agent becomes a bankrupt, his authority is so far revoked that he cannot receive any money on account of his principal; 5 B. & Ald. 645, 3d edit.; but for certain other purposes, the bankruptcy of the agent does not operate as a revocation. 3 Meriv. 322; Story, Ag. Sec. 486. The insanity of the agent would render him unfit to act in the business of the agency, and would determine his authority.
Revocation (). The death of the agent puts an end to the agency. Litt. Sec. 66.
Revocation () The extinction of the subject-matter of the agency, or of the principal's power over it, or the complete execution of the trust confided to the agent, will put an end to and determine the agency.
Revocation () It must be remembered that an authority, coupled with an interest, cannot be revoked either by the acts of the principal, or by operation of law. 2 Mason's R. 244, 342; 8 Wheat. R. 170; 1 Pet. R. 1; 2 Esp. R. 565; 10 B. & Cr. 731; Story Ag. Sec. 477, 483.
Revocation () It is true in general, a power ceases with the life of the person making it; but if the interest or estate passes with the power, and vests in the person by whom the power is exercised, such person acts in his own name. The estate being in him, passes from him by a conveyance in his own name. He is no longer a substitute acting in the name of another, but is the principal acting in his own name in pursuance of powers which limit the estate. The legal reason which limits the power to the life of the person giving it exists no longer, and the rule ceases with the reason on which it is founded. 8 Wheat. R. 174.
Revocation () The revocation of the agent is a revocation of any substitute he may have appointed. Poth. Mandat, n. 112; 2 Liverm. Ag. 307; Story, Ag. Sec. 469. But in some cases, as in the case of the master of a ship, his death does not revoke the power of the mate whom he had appointed; and in some cases of public appointments, on the death or removal of the principal officer, the deputies appointed by him are, by express provisions in the laws, authorized to continue in the performance of their duties.
Revocation () The time when the revocation takes effect must be considered, first, with regard to the agent, and secondly, as it affects third persons. 1. When the revocation can be lawfully made, it takes effect, as to the agent, from the moment it is communicated to him. 2. As to third persons, the revocation has no effect until it is made known to them; if, therefore, an agent, knowing of the revocation of his authority, deal with a third person in the name of his late principal, when such person was ignorant of the revocation, both the agent and the principal will be bound by his acts. Story, Ag. Sec. 470; 2 Liverm. Ag. 306; 2 Kent, Com. 644, 3d edit.; Paley, Ag. by Lloyd, 108, 570; Story, Bailm. Sec. 208; 5 T. R. 215. A note or bill signed, accepted or indorsed by a clerk, after his discharge, who had been authorized to sign, indorse, or accept bills and notes for his principal while in his employ, will be binding upon the latter, unless notice has been given of his discharge and the revocation of his authority. 3 Chit. Com. Law, 197.
Revocatory (a.) 廢除的；撤銷的 Of or pertaining to; tending to, or involving, a revocation; revoking; recalling.
Revoice (v. t.) To refurnish with a voice; to refit, as an organ pipe, so as to restore its tone.
Revoked (imp. & p. p.) of Revoke.
Revoking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revoke.
Revoke (v. t.) 撤回，撤銷；廢除，取消；【罕】回想，重新喚起 To call or bring back; to recall. [Obs.]
The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality. -- Spenser.
Revoke (v. t.) 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.
Revoke (v. t.) To hold back; to repress; to restrain. [Obs.]
[She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke. -- Spenser.
Revoke (v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Revoke (v. t.) To call back to mind; to recollect. [Obs.]
A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoris to his conscience. -- South.
Syn: To abolish; recall; repeal; rescind; countermand; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See Abolish.
Revoke (v. i.) （紙牌戲中）有牌不跟To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. -- Hoyle.
Revoke (n.) [C] 有牌不跟 The act of revoking.
She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke. -- Lamb.
Revoke (n.) The mistake of not following suit when able to do so [syn: {revoke}, {renege}].
Revoke (v.) Fail to follow suit when able and required to do so.
Revoke (v.) Cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: {revoke}, {annul}, {lift}, {countermand}, {reverse}, {repeal}, {overturn}, {rescind}, {vacate}].
Revokement (n.) Revocation. [R.] -- Shak.
Revoker (n.) One who revokes.
Revokingly (adv.) By way of revocation.
Revolted (imp. & p. p.) of Revolt.
Revolting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revolt.
Revolt (v. i.) 叛亂，反抗，起義，厭惡，反感 To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
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.
His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time. -- J. Morley.
Revolt (v. i.) 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.
Our discontented counties do revolt. -- Shak.
Plant those that have revolted in the van. -- Shak.
Revolt (v. i.) 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.
Revolt (v. t.) 使反感，使噁心 To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Revolt (v. t.) To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.
This abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds. -- Burke.
To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creatuure revolted his conscience and offended his reason. -- J. Morley.
Revolt (n.) 叛亂，反抗，反感 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.
Who first seduced them to that foul revolt? -- Milton.
Revolt (n.) A revolter. [Obs.] "Ingrate revolts." -- Shak.
Syn: Insurrection; sedition; rebellion; mutiny. See Insurrection.
Revolt (n.) Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another [syn: {rebellion}, {insurrection}, {revolt}, {rising}, {uprising}].
Revolt (v.) Make revolution; "The people revolted when bread prices tripled again".
Revolt (v.) Fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me" [syn: {disgust}, {gross out}, {revolt}, {repel}].
Revolt (v.) Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: {disgust}, {revolt}, {nauseate}, {sicken}, {churn up}].
Revolt () Crim. law. The act of congress of April 30, 1790, s. 8, 1 Story's L. U. S. 84, punishes with death any seaman who shall lay violent hands upon his commander, thereby to hinder or prevent his fighting in defence of his ship, or goods committed to his trust, or shall make a revolt in the ship. What is a revolt is not defined in the act of congress nor by the common law; it was therefore contended, that it could not be deemed an offence for which any person could be punished. 1 Pet. R. 118.
Revolt () In a case which occurred in the circuit court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, the defendants were charged with an endeavour to make a revolt. The judges sent up the case to the supreme court upon a certificate of division of opinion of the judges; as to the definition of the word revolt. 4 W. C. C. R. 528. The opinion of the supreme court was delivered by Washington, J., and is in these words "This case comes before the court upon a certificate of division of the opinion of the judges of the circuit court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, upon the following point assigned by the defendants as a reason in arrest of judgment, viz. that the act of congress does not define the offence of endeavoring to make a revolt; and it is not competent to the court to give a judicial definition of an offence heretofore unknown.
"This court is of opinion that although the act of congress does not define this offence, it is nevertheless, competent to the court to give a judicial definition of it. We think that the offence consists in the endeavor of the crew of a vessel, or any one or more of them, to overthrow the legitimate authority of her commander, with intent to remove him from his command; or against his will to take possession of the vessel by assuming the government and navigation of her; or by transferring their obedience from the lawful commander to some other person." 11 Wheat. R. 417. Vide 4 W. C. C. R. 528, 405; Mason's R. 147 4 Mason, R. 105; 4 Wash. C. C. R. 548 1 Pet. C. C. R. 213; 5 Mason, R. 464; 1 Sumn. 448; 3 Wash. C. C. R. 525; 1 Carr. & Kirw. 429.
Revolt () According to Wolff, revolt and rebellion are nearly synonymous; he says it is the state of citizens who unjustly take up arms against the prince or government. Wolff, Dr. de la Nat. 1232.
Revolter (n.) [法] 謀反者；叛變者；造反者 One who revolts.
Revolting (a.) 背叛的；造反的；令人噁心的；討厭的 Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty. -- Re*volt"ing*ly, adv.
Revolting (a.) Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky].
Revoluble
(a.)
Capable of revolving; rotatory; revolving. [Obs.]
Us,
then, to whom the thrice three year Hath filled his revoluble orb since our
arrival here, I blame not. -- Chapman.
Revolute (a.) (Bot. & Zool.) Rolled backward or downward.
Note: 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.
Revolution (n.) [C] [U] 革命，革命運動；[C] [（+in）] 革命性劇變，大變革；[C] [U] [（+round）]（天體的）運行，公轉；[C] 迴轉，旋轉；[U] [C] 循環，（一）週期 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.
Revolution (n.) Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.
That fear Comes thundering back, with dreadful revolution, On my defenseless head. -- Milton.
Revolution (n.) 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.
Revolution (n.) (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.
Note: 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.
Revolution (n.) (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.
Revolution (n.) A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.
The ability . . . of the great philosopher speedily produced a complete revolution throughout the department. -- Macaulay.
Revolution (n.) (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.
Revolution (n.) A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving; "the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution".
Revolution (n.) The overthrow of a government by those who are governed.
Revolution (n.) A single complete turn (axial or orbital); "the plane made three rotations before it crashed"; "the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year" [syn: {rotation}, {revolution}, {gyration}].
Revolutionary (a.) [Z] 革命的；大變革的；完全創新的；（大寫）美國獨立戰爭的；旋轉的 Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.
Revolutionary (n.) [C] 革命者 A revolutionist. [R.]
Dumfries was a Tory town, and could not tolerate a revolutionary. -- Prof. Wilson.
Revolutionary (a.) Markedly new or introducing radical change; "a revolutionary discovery"; "radical political views" [syn: revolutionary, radical].
Revolutionary (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn [syn: rotatory, revolutionary].
Revolutionary (a.) Relating to or having the nature of a revolution; "revolutionary wars"; "the Revolutionary era".
Revolutionary (a.) Advocating or engaged in revolution; "revolutionary pamphlets"; "a revolutionary junta" [ant: counterrevolutionary].
Revolutionary (n.) A radical supporter of political or social revolution [syn: revolutionist, revolutionary, subversive, subverter].
Revolutionary (a.) (In politics) (B2) 革命的，革命性的 Involved in or relating to a revolution.
// A revolutionary leader/ movement.
Revolutionary (a.) (New and important) (B2) 革命性的；大變革的；完全創新的 Completely new and having a great effect.
// Penicillin was a revolutionary drug.
// The 20th century brought about revolutionary changes in our lifestyles.
Revolutionary (n.) [ C ] 革命者 Someone who tries to cause or take part in a revolution.
Revolutioner (n.) 革命者 One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist. -- Smollett.
Revolutionism (n.) 鼓吹革命；從事革命 The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.
Revolutionism (n.) A belief in the spread of revolutionary principles.
Revolutionist (n.) 革命者 One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution. -- Burke.
Revolutionist (n.) A radical supporter of political or social revolution [syn: {revolutionist}, {revolutionary}, {subversive}, {subverter}].
Revolutioniezed (imp. & p. p.) of Revolutionize.
Revolutionizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revolutionize.
Revolutionize (v. t.) 徹底改革，在……方面實現突破性大變革；使革命化 To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government. -- Ames.
The gospel . . . has revolutionized his soul. -- J. M. Mason.
Revolutionize (v.) Change radically; "E-mail revolutionized communication in academe" [syn: revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn].
Revolutionize (v.) Overthrow by a revolution, of governments.
Revolutionize (v.) Fill with revolutionary ideas [syn: revolutionize, revolutionise, inspire].
Revolutive (a.) Inclined to revolve things in the mind; meditative. [Obs.] -- Feltham.
Revolvable (a.) 能旋轉的；能被旋轉的 That may be revolved.
Revolved (imp. & p. p.) of Revolve.