visé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vise"

English

Alternative forms

• vise

Etymology

Borrowed from French visé, past participle of viser (“to issue with a visa”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viːˈzeɪ/

Noun

visé (plural visés)

1. (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

visé (third-person singular simple present visés, present participle viséing, simple past and past participle viséed or viséd)

1. (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

• “visé”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Ives, VIEs, vies

French

Participle

visé (feminine visée, masculine plural visés, feminine plural visées)

1. past participle of viser

Derived terms

• susvisé

Further reading

• “visé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• sévi
• vies

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viˈze/

Verb

visé

1. to sign

Spanish

Verb

visé

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of visar