rescription

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English

Etymology

From Latin rescriptio. Compare French rescription. See rescribe.

Noun

rescription (countable and uncountable, plural rescriptions)

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