What is "revisionary"

Usage examples of "revisionary".

However, this revisionary work, with all its new insights, generally has not been written for the general reader.

Court sustained an act of Congress which conferred revisionary powers upon the Supreme Court of the District in patent appeals and made its decisions binding only upon the Commissioner of Patents.

Similarly, the Court later sustained the authority of Congress to vest revisionary powers in the same court over rates fixed by a public utilities commission.

Not long after this the same rule was applied to the revisionary power of the District Supreme Court over orders of the Federal Radio Commission.

The superintendents exercise general control over the administration of criminal justice, and have power to call for cases, and to exercise wide revisionary powers.

And occasionally even the writer herself or himself glances back at an earlier tale with a revisionary pang.