rescribe

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verb

To write back; to write in reply.

OriginLatin rescribere →
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Meanings

verbrescribe (third-person singular simple present rescribes, present participle rescribing, simple past and past participle rescribed)

present singular third person rescribes · participle present rescribing · participle past rescribed · past rescribed

  1. obsoleteTo write back; to write in reply.

    Whenever a Prince on his being consulted by any one rescribes or writes back in this manner, he seems to dispense with that act.

    1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani
  2. obsoletetransitiveTo write out again; to rewrite.

    [he] calmly cal'd for more Paper to rescribe them [the writings]

    1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinrescribere
  2. Englishrescribe

From Latin rescribere.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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