Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To write back.
  • To write again.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To write back; to write in reply.
  • transitive verb To write over again.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To write back; to write in reply.
  • verb obsolete, transitive To write out again; to rewrite.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin rescribere.

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Examples

  • Ben Affleck is in talks to star in, rescribe and helm The Town.

    Needcoffee.com 2008

  • The secretary of the Commonwealth is authorized to make rules and regulations, and]) rescribe forms for the filing of lal) els, trade-marks and forms of adveiiisement under the provisions of this act.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

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