revisionist

& a. [Eng. revision; -ist.] A. As subst.: An advocate of the revision or amendment of anything; spec if., one of a party in the Church of England who desire to alter the Book of Common Prayer, in an ultra-Protestant direction, by the omi ion or alteration of all its Catholic elements. B. As adj .: Advocating or supporting revision. "The same popular voice should, a few months later, return a 'National rath,' two-thirds of which are pledged to the revisionist cause."- British Quarterly Review, vol. Ivii., p. 341 (1873). re-viş-it, *re-vis-yt, v. t. [Pref. re-, and Eng. visit, v. (q. v.)] 1. To visit again; to come to visit or see again. 2. To review, to revise, to examine.