renvoy

English

Etymology

French renvoi (noun), renvoyer (verb).

Noun

renvoy (plural renvoys)

1. (obsolete) A sending back.

Verb

renvoy (third-person singular simple present renvoys, present participle renvoying, simple past and past participle renvoyed)

1. (obsolete) To send back.
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     Not dismissing or renvoying her.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)