rescribe
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]rescribe (third-person singular simple present rescribes, present participle rescribing, simple past and past participle rescribed)
- (obsolete) To write back; to write in reply.
- 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani:
- Whenever a Prince on his being consulted by any one rescribes or writes back in this manner, he seems to dispense with that act.
- (obsolete, transitive) To write out again; to rewrite.
- 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:
- [he] calmly cal'd for more Paper to rescribe them [the writings]
References
[edit]“rescribe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]rescrībe
Spanish
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[edit]rescribe
- inflection of rescribir: