rescription

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.