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visé¹

  • /viːˈzeɪ/

Rhymes with -eɪ

Where it comes from

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

noun visés · vise

  1. archaic 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.

verb visés · viséing · viséed · viséd

  1. archaic, transitive 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.

Visé²

proper noun

  1. A municipality in the province of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium.

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MLA

"visé." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/vis%C3%A9. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

visé. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/vis%C3%A9

Chicago

"visé." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/vis%C3%A9.

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@misc{vise_2026,
  title = {visé},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/vis%C3%A9},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}