rescissory

English

Etymology

Latin rescissorius.

Adjective

rescissory (comparative more rescissory, superlative most rescissory)

  1. Tending to rescind.
    • Bishop Burnet
      To pass a general act rescissory (as it was called), annulling all the Parliaments that had been held since the year 1633.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rescissory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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