rescriptive

Adjective

1. Pertaining to, or answering the purpose of, a rescript.
   • 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...
   • 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...
   • Harries stresses the rescriptive character of many imperial decrees, responding to appeals rather than initiating law making . - 2013, Law and Empire: Ideas, Practices, Actors, page 11:

   1. Serving to alter an existing law or legal document or arising from such an alteration.

   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....
      • 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,...
      • Through this material it becomes clear that the disclosive and rescriptive identity movements discussed in chapter 1 may actually be quite difficult to achieve in particular places and cultural environments. - 2011,...

   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...
      • The films effect a hypertension between the impulses of the original material and the rescriptive force of the new edits. - 2012, Akira Mizuta Lippit, Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video, page 59:

   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,...