Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Review \Re*view"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Review?d}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Reveiwing}.] [Pref. re- + view. Cf. {Review}, n. ]
   1. To view or see again; to look back on. [R.] ``I shall
      review Sicilia.'' --Shak.

   2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately.
      Specifically:
      (a) To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before
          printing it, or a book for a new edition.
      (b) To go over with critical examination, in order to
          discover exellences or defects; hence, to write a
          critical notice of; as, to review a new novel.
      (c) To make a formal or official examination of the state
          of, as troops, and the like; as, to review a regiment.
      (d) (Law) To re["e]xamine judically; as, a higher court
          may review the proceedings and judgments of a lower
          one.

   3. To retrace; to go over again.

            Shall I the long, laborious scene review? --Pope.