rectification vs rescript

rectification

noun
  • The action or process of rectifying. 

  • Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement. 

  • The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem. 

  • Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation. 

  • The truncation of a polyhedron by replacing each vertex with a face that passes though the midpoint of each edge connected to the vertex; an analogous procedure on a polytope of dimension higher than 3. 

  • The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve. 

  • A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life. 

rescript

noun
  • A rewriting, a document copied or written again. 

  • A duplicate copy of a legal document. 

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

  • 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. 

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