Revised
[rɪ'vaɪzd]
Definition
(adj.) improved or brought up to date; 'a revised edition' .
(adj.) altered or revised by rephrasing or by adding or deleting material; 'the amended bill passed easily' .
Edited by Eva--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Revise
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Examples
- Through its critical process true knowledge is revised and extended, and our convictions as to the state of things reorganized. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The rich man, who had in a manner revised the New Testament, and already entered into the kingdom of Heaven. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Long before he undertoo k the regular study of the law, he spent long hours poring ove r the revised statutes of the State in which he was living. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The law was codified, the literary examination system was revised, and a complete and accurate edition of all the Chinese classics was produced. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It had to produce general prosperity, they admitted, or it had to be revised. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Accordingly we have now only the very much altered and revised vestiges of that spoken literature of prehistoric times. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His revised orders brought him to Chattanooga by the established route north of the Tennessee. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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