revisory

English

Etymology

revise +‎ -ory

Adjective

revisory (comparative more revisory, superlative most revisory)

  1. Having the power or purpose to revise.
    • 1833, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States:
      An appellate jurisdiction , therefore , that acts , and is acted upon alternatively , in the exercise of an independent revisory authority , must have the means , and can scarcely fail to possess the will , to give it a full and satisfactory review

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “revisory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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