English

Noun

visé ‎(plural visés)

1. A note or stamp entered in a passport or other document showing that it has been officially inspected; 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, Henry James, The Modern Warning, Ch. 6:

     […] 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)

1. (transitive) 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 Monthy, 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.

French

Verb

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

1. past participle of viser

Anagrams

• sévi
• vies