RESCRIPT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rescript mean? 

• RESCRIPT (noun)
  The noun RESCRIPT has 4 senses:

1. a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality

2. a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

3. the act of rewriting something

4. something that has been written again

  Familiarity information: RESCRIPT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESCRIPT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("rescript" is a kind of...):

answer; reply; response (a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

decree; edict; fiat; order; rescript

Context example:

a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there

Hypernyms ("rescript" is a kind of...):

act; enactment (a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rescript"):

consent decree (an agreement between two parties that is sanctioned by the court; for example, a company might agree to stop certain questionable practices without admitting guilt)

curfew (an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited)

decree nisi (a decree issued on a first petition for divorce; becomes absolute at some later date)

imperial decree (a decree issued by a sovereign ruler)

judicial separation; legal separation (a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart)

programma (an edict that has been publicly posted)

ban; prohibition; proscription (a decree that prohibits something)

stay (a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted)

bull; papal bull (a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of rewriting something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rescript; revisal; revise; revision

Hypernyms ("rescript" is a kind of...):

revising; rewriting (editing that involves writing something again)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Something that has been written again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rescript; revision; rewrite

Context example:

the rewrite was much better

Hypernyms ("rescript" is a kind of...):

piece of writing; writing; written material (the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect))

 Context examples 

As there is no motive for concealment, I am permitted to use them, and accordingly send you a rescript, simply omitting technical details of seamanship and supercargo.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)