reviser

The words in italics, for reasons lost to history, were omitted from the first compilation of federal laws in 1874, which was prepared by a government official called “the reviser of the federal statutes.”

“The Attorney General has no authority to act as a roving reviser of state law, challenging as unconstitutional any rule with which he disagrees.”

She has also learned to be a tireless reviser — a skill acquired in the legal world, where “people are always marking up your work.”

Not even academic historians, those pesky revisers of received wisdom, have dented the reputation of the anti-fascist conflict.

Orwell’s protagonist, Winston Smith, works as a reviser of historical records in the Ministry of Truth before becoming a member of a doomed resistance movement.