单词 | rescriptive |
释义 | rescriptiveadj. Now rare. Of the nature of a rescript (rescript n.); made in reply; that decides or settles a matter. ΚΠ 1636 tr. St. Augustine Care for Dead 62 I praye let me knowe by your rescriptiue letters [L. rescriptis tuis] how your venerable Dilection accepted this bouke. 1793 W. O. Pughe Geiriadur Cynmraeg a Saesoneg: Welsh & Eng. Dict. I Adysgrivenawl, rescriptive. 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Rescriptive, pertaining to, or answering the purpose of, a rescript; deciding; settling. 1959 D. Krivickas & A. Rusis in Govt., Law & Courts in Soviet Union & E. Europe I. i. i. 20 The Council of People's Commissars was defined as the ‘executive and rescriptive agency of the Central Executive Committee’..which ‘issues decrees and resolutions binding on the entire territory of the Soviet Union’. Derivatives reˈscriptively adv. ΚΠ 1793 E. Burke Wks. II. 207 The forest lands, in which the crown has (where they are not granted or rescriptively held) the dominion of the soil. 1993 E. W. Said Culture & Imperialism iii. 331 We must all write our histories and cultures rescriptively in a new way. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1636 |
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