renvoy
English
Etymology
French renvoi (noun), renvoyer (verb).
Noun
renvoy (plural renvoys)
- (obsolete) A sending back.
Verb
renvoy (third-person singular simple present renvoys, present participle renvoying, simple past and past participle renvoyed)
- (obsolete) To send back.
- Francis Bacon
- Not dismissing or renvoying her.
- Francis Bacon
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for renvoy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)