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te; the whole extent of its intention or provisions. Marshall. Profanations within the purview of several statutes. Bacon.

To vie with, or rival, in return.

To view or see again; to look back on [R.] "I shall review Sicilia." Shak.

Capable of being reviewed.

A review. [R.] Southey.

One who reviews or reëxamines; an inspector; one who examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books.

A necklace of diamonds or other precious stones, esp. one of several strings.

A view if one's self; specifically, carefulness or regard for one's own interests

Subordinate. [Obs. except in law.] Dyer. Servient tenement or estate (Law), that on which the burden of a servitude or an easement is imposed. Cf. Dominant estate, under Dominant. Gale & Whately.

A table napkin.

The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley. There is a regular subordination and subserviency among all the parts to…

nate; hence, servile, truckling. Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other. Bp. Fell. These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another. Ray. Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizing spirit. Burke.

In a subservient manner.

To survey; to make a survey of. [Obs.] "To surview his ground." Spenser.

See Underlooker.

A kind of Polish dance.

Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to Ant: concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. J. S. Mill.

The act of thrusting away. [R.] Ogilvie.

's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request. The treaty of Hanover in 1725 . . . to which the Dutch afterwards acceded. Chesterfield.