E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Revi’se (2 syl.).
The second proofsheet submitted to an author or “reader.”
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“I at length reached a vaulted room, … and beheld, seated by a lamp and employed in reading a blotted revise … the author of Waverley.”—Sir Walter Scott: Fortunes of Nigel [Introduction].
