Pronounced: BREE-oh, noun
Notes: I don’t know this word, but it looks like an incomplete word
Yesterday’s word
The word rescript has multiple meanings, some of which you’d probably guess:
- a written answer (as of a Roman emperor or a pope) to a written question or petition
- an edict, decree, or official pronouncement
- something rewritten
- the act of rewriting
First usage
Our word came into English in the early-to-mid 1500s
Background / Comments
In the order of the definitions above, one can see how the meaning has changed over time: from a written response to a Roman emperor it became any official pronouncement, and then became more gradual to writing or re-writing. Our word comes from the Latin word rescrīptrum (an imperial rescript), which is a noun created from the neuter past participle rescrībere (to write back; reply).
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