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synonyms: ukase, chit ???
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Definition:1. (Rom.Antiq.) The answer of an emperor when formally consulted by particular persons on some difficult question; hence, an edict or decree.2. (R.C.Ch.) The official written answer of the pope upon a question of canon law, or morals.3. A counterpart.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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In their rescripts and other ordinances, the Roman emperors spoke in the plural number.
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[He] had received and read the then famous rescript of the Emperor Alexander from the army to Sergey Kuzmich
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 03 (Book Three)
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MacCann began to speak with fluent energy of the Tsar’s rescript, of Stead, of general disarmament, arbitration in cases of international disputes, of the signs of the times, of the new humanity and the new gospel of life which would make it the business of the community to secure as cheaply as possible the greatest possible happiness of the greatest possible number.
James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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