[See prec.] trans. To put a visé on (a passport or other document); to endorse or sign as correct and in due order.
1810. B. Silliman, Jrnl. Trav. (1820), III. 33. This passport had not been indorsed, ‘viséd’ as they termed it.
1842. Borrow, Bible in Spain, viii. An officer … despatched a soldier with me to the police office, that my passport might be viséed.
1858. Merc. Marine Mag., V. 24. Foreign vessels are bound to have their ship papers viséd by the … Consular Agents.
1892. Nation (N.Y.), 19 May, 373/2. The information given to Intendente Viel, who viséed the cablegram.
transf. 1854. Tait’s Mag., XXI. 166. The same ages visé’d other poets who wrote worse, and better.
