visé meaning (archaic): definition, etymology and quotations

visé

noun

/viːˈzeɪ/

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

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.1839, A Hand-book for Travellers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Russia, page 117:
[…] 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.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:

verb

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

Archaic To examine and endorse (a passport, etc.); to visa.

[…] 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.1872, Janet Millett, An Australian Parsonage, Ch. XI:
Russian consuls everywhere have been instructed to visé passports of geologists presenting membership cards, which will also facilitate matters at the frontier.1897, Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 51, June, "World's Geologists at St. Petersburg"

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Therefore, with my passport properly viséd and my papers all in order, I one night left Hull for Stockholm by the weekly Wilson service.1905, William Le Queux, The Czar's Spy, Ch. 10:

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