rescriptive

Example Sentences

• "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 rescriptive denunciation from the Pope himself; as has also the Society of Freemasons , which boasts an existence long prior to the power which has thus denounced it; whilst the "Index Expurgatorius" of the Vatican has cut off, from the perusal of the faithful, some of the most useful,as well as the most sublime, emanations of human genius."
• "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."
• "Harries stresses the rescriptive character of many imperial decrees, responding to appeals rather than initiating law making ."
• "Among the archaeological curiosities of that distant day may still be found in print a letter written in January, 1802, by Gideon Granger, one of the earliest and boldest of the then first executed dogmas, of what has become since lamentably familiar as rotation in office by executive ar4bitrary removal of harmless, often excellent incumbents; by which missive, like imperial rescriptive French royal lettre-de-cachet, Nicholas Powers was dismissed from the postmastership at Poughkeepsie, because, as the letter of destitution states: "The printer of a newspaper is not the most proper person to discharge the duties of a postmaster.""
• "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."