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  • noun Plural form of rescript.

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Examples

  • Like Mary Robinson, George's desirous sighting — this time, however, based on her property-estate value as an heir-producer — also creates for Caroline, like Robinson, a financially insecure future that rescripts her from sentimental beloved to gothically disowned wife.

    Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006

  • How dared he say, in one of his rescripts, that he transferred the seat of empire to

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The lead hanging to the rescripts despatched in the Roman court bears on one side the head of St. Peter on the right, and that of St. Paul on the left; and, on the reverse, the name of the reigning pope, with the year of his pontificate.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Besides, it is known that all rescripts, or expeditions for benefices, are still paid for at Rome according to the tax; and this charge always falls at last on the laity, by the impositions which the subordinate clergy exact from them.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Far, way far, ahead of Gay balderdash or perfect family rescripts on teevee are the MURDER shows.

    It's a Mean Old World The Daily Growler 2006

  • After the praetor's edict was codified under Hadrian, the pronouncements of the emperor (constitutiones principis), in the form of edicts, decrees, and rescripts, became the principal source of law.

    b. Economy, Society, and Culture 2001

  • You have taken breaks to issue some fairly bewildering rescripts, though.

    Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999

  • They also brought in a couple of rescripts they found posted on the official announcement pillars.

    Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999

  • I told her that someone had once told me it designated those who recorded the rescripts of the Increate.

    The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

  • That this was continually in their mouths and clamours, all the acts at the slaying of the martyrs, the rescripts of emperors, the apologies of the

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

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