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rescription

rescription noun: the act of writing back; the answering of a letter.

Noun

rescription (countable and uncountable, plural rescriptions)

  1. (obsolete) The act of writing back; the answering of a letter.
    • You cannot oblige me more than to be punctual in rescription.1662, Robert Loveday, Loveday's Letters, Domestick and Forreign, page 31

Forms of rescription

pluralrescriptions

Origin of rescription

From Latin rescriptio. Compare French rescription. See rescribe.

Questions about rescription

What does rescription mean?
Rescription means the act of writing back; the answering of a letter.
What part of speech is rescription?
Rescription is a noun.
What is the plural of rescription?
The plural of rescription is rescriptions.

Words near rescription in the dictionary

  1. rescribendary
  2. rescribing
  3. rescript
  4. rescripted
  5. rescripting
  6. rescription
  7. rescriptions
  8. rescriptive
  9. rescriptively
  10. rescripts
  11. rescrub

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