amend vs rescript

amend

noun
  • An act of righting a wrong; compensation. 

verb
  • To make better; improve. 

  • To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing. 

  • To become better. 

rescript

noun
  • A clarification of a point of law by a monarch issued upon formal consultation by a lower magistrate. 

  • A rewriting, a document copied or written again. 

  • A duplicate copy of a legal document. 

  • An ad hoc reply of a pope to some specific question of canon law or morality, without precedential force, sometimes (improper) inclusive of decretals which serve as precedents in canon law. 

verb
  • To script again or anew. 

How often have the words amend and rescript occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )