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re·script (rē′skript′)

noun

  1. an order or decree issued by a Roman emperor or by the pope in answer to some presented difficulty or point of law
  2. any official decree or order
    1. the act of rewriting
    2. something rewritten; copy

Etymology: L rescriptum < rescriptus, pp. of rescribere < re-, back + scribere, to write: see scribe

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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