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Having the power or purpose to emend, correct, or change

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Usage examples (17)
  • Assembly, and, according to the Constitution, a three-fourths majority was requisite to revise and to call a revisory convention, they needed only to count their own...
  • If I had the knack, it would be something performed entirely apart from my serious work – just as my present revisory activities are.
  • As to many of these minor matters, the function of the Commission might well be made revisory, and the primary responsibility delegated to subordinate officials after...
  • In an unexpected turn, the archbishop of San Juan, González Robert Nieves, will appear today for the second time before the revisory commission of the Civil Code to...
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