visé
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "vise"
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French visé, past participle of viser (“to issue with a visa”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]visé (plural visés)
- (archaic) visa.
- 1839, A Hand-book for Travellers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Russia, page 117:
- A minister cannot make any direct charge for giving or viséing a passport (though his porter always takes care to ask for something), whereas the Russian consul always charges a dollar banco for every visé.
- 1888 September 29, Henry James, “[The Modern Warning.] Chapter VI.”, in The Aspern Papers; Louisa Pallant; The Modern Warning, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
- […] promising her that he would not print a word to which her approval should not be expressly given. She should countersign every page before it went to press, and none should leave the house without her visé.
Verb
[edit]visé (third-person singular simple present visés, present participle viséing, simple past and past participle viséed or viséd)
- (transitive, archaic) To examine and endorse (a passport, etc.); to visa.
- 1872, Janet Millett, An Australian Parsonage, Ch. XI:
- […] unable to be abroad after ten at night, or to carry a gun, or to remove into another district without a written pass which must be visé on reaching a police-station.
- 1897, Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 51, June, "World's Geologists at St. Petersburg":
- Russian consuls everywhere have been instructed to visé passports of geologists presenting membership cards, which will also facilitate matters at the frontier.
- 1905, William Le Queux, The Czar's Spy, Ch. 10:
- Therefore, with my passport properly viséd and my papers all in order, I one night left Hull for Stockholm by the weekly Wilson service.
References
[edit]- “visé”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Participle
[edit]visé (feminine visée, masculine plural visés, feminine plural visées)
- past participle of viser
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “visé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Piedmontese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]visé
- to sign
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]visé
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