rescriptive

Adjective

rescriptive (comparative more rescriptive, superlative most rescriptive)

1. Serving to alter an existing law or legal document or arising from such an alteration.
   • Thus the Queen's colleges in Ireland, although so framed in their constitution that it is impossible for either Catholic or Protestant youth to be the subjects of religious tampering, have been deemed worthy of a rescriptive denunciation from the Pope himself; as has also the Society of Freemasons...1853 September, “The Relations of the English and the Catholic Churches to the People and to One Another”, in The London Quarterly Review, volume 1, number 1, page 83
   • It has been, indeed, the good fortune of the republic that there has been no very strong man in charge of the destinies of any one o f the families who would claim rescriptive right to the administration.1892, Edward Everett Hale, Lend a Hand - Volume 9, page 283
2. Pertaining to or based on reinterpretation
   • I prefer to describe it as rescriptive for it assumes sense-making that allows for multiple interpretations and an infinity of the combinations of interpretive strategies that lead to a multiplicity of interpretations.2004, Nanette Monin, Management Theory: A Critical and Reflexive Reading, page 1973
   • The converse is also true: disagreements on goals and means in squares one and three cannot be reduced to evaluative and rescriptive factors, since these depend fundamentally on technical-scientific positions.2009, Richard Rottenburg, Far-Fetched Facts: A Parable of Development Aid, page 180
3. That involves rewriting or conversion to another form.
   • The book is rescriptive, rewriting itself all the time.1994, Andreas Fischer, Repetition, page 198
   • Thus, independently of the particular characteristics of the dynamic (or static) rescriptive gauge function, uᵢ, the system re-assumes the harmonic oscillator structure of (qᵢ,pᵢ).2007, Edward Belbruno, New Trends in Astrodynamics and Applications III, page 47
4. Involving or initiating an additional act of writing
   • Besides serving as sites of advice or vehicles of intelligence, early modern letters also function as transactions in an ongoing epistolary conversation, and as prompts to rescriptive action by their readers.2012, Chris Stamatakis, Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Rhetoric of Rewriting, page 98