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20, 1883. review age (re-vu'aj), n. [ lications, consisting of a collection of critical e ays on subjects of public interest, literary, scientific, political, moral, or theological, to- gether with critical examinations of new pub reviewal (re-vu'al), n . lications. Novels (witne ev'ry month's review ) Belie their name, and offer nothing new. review (re-vū ́), v . [ view ; or review , n .] I. trans . 1†. To see again. When thou review est this, thou dost review The very part was consecrate to thee. Backe he was sent to Brasil; and long it was before his longing could be satisfied to review his Countrey and friends. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 842. 2. To look back upon; recall by the aid of memory. Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy Past The forms that once have been. Long fellow , A Gleam of Sunshine. Whatever you order down to me in the way of review age , I shall of course execute. W. Taylor, To R. Southey, Dec. 30, 1807. [ review + -al .] The act of reviewing; a review; a critique. I have written a reviewal of "Lord Howe's Life." Southey, To Mrs. J. W. Warter, June 5, 1838. reviewer (rē-vū'ėr), n. 1. One who revises; a reviser. This rubric, being the same that we have in king Edward's second Common Prayer Book, may perhaps have slipt into the present book through the inadvertency of the reviewers .