revise : Idioms & Phrases


american revised version

  • noun a revised version of the King James Version
    American Standard Version.
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revised standard version

  • noun a revision of the American Standard Version
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revised version

  • noun a British revision of the Authorized Version
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The Revised Version of the Bible

  • a version prepared in accordance with a resolution passed, in 1870, by both houses of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, England. Both English and American revisers were employed on the work. It was first published in a complete form in 1885, and is a revised form of the Authorized Version. See Authorized Version, under Authorized.
Webster 1913