rescribe

English

Etymology

Latin rescribere.

Verb

rescribe (third-person singular simple present rescribes, present participle rescribing, simple past and past participle rescribed)

  1. (obsolete) To write back; to write in reply.
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  2. (obsolete, transitive) To write out again; to rewrite.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 rescribe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Verb

rescrībe

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of rescrībō
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