rescripts

Updated: May 20, 2025

* It is from the Dataria that bulls, rescripts, letters of appointment to benefices, and dispensations of marriage, are issued, after the affixture of the date and formula /Datum Romae/, "Given at Rome." Trans. All at once certain things which he had never understood were explained to him.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 4

It appears, however, that about forty years afterwards the emperor Valerian was persuaded of the truth of this assertion, since in one of his rescripts he evidently supposes, that senators, Roman knights, and ladies of quality, were engaged in the Christian sect.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1

Just as the last wagon-load but one was being transferred to the omnivorous depths of the Delaware, which I should think would have been filled ten times over with what we had put into it, down rode the General with a fiendish joy in his bright eyes and held out a paper, one of the familiar rescripts from headquarters.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Army Life in a Black Regiment

These men soon came to exercise great influence over the Court nobles especially Konoe, Takatsukasa, Ichijo, Nijo, and Sanjo and were consequently able to suggest subjects for the sovereign's rescripts.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

If you care to inquire, you will find that my charge is not the least important in the government of Egypt. I control the cause-list, see that trials are properly conducted, keep a record of all proceedings and pleas, exercise censorship over forensic oratory, and edit the Emperor's rescripts with a view to their official and permanent preservation in the most lucid, accurate, and genuine form.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

January 22d, Fermor enters Konigsberg; publishes no end of proclamations, manifestoes, rescripts, to inform the poor people, trembling at the Cossack atrocities of last Year, "That his august Sovereign Elizabeth of All the Russias has now become Proprietress of East Preussen, which shall be perfectly protected and exquisitely well-governed henceforth; and that all men of official or social position have, accordingly, to come and take the oath to her, with the due alacrity and punctuality, at their peril."

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18

L. In sealing letters-patent, rescripts, or epistles, he at first used the figure of a sphinx, afterwards the head of Alexander the Great, and at last his own, engraved by the hand of Dioscorides; which practice was retained by the succeeding emperors. He was extremely precise in dating his letters, putting down exactly the time of the day or night at which they were dispatched.

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus - The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete

In consequence, there appeared in 1821 a series of edicts by the viceroy and various rescripts by the Commission of Public Instruction and Religious Denominations, resulting in the demolition of the ancient communal scheme, in which certain forms of self-government, but by no means its underlying fundamental principles, had become obsolete.

Simon Dubnow - History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II: From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander: III. (1825-1894)

Now that his public life was over, he published a collection of the state papers composed by him under the Gothic rulers from Theodoric to Vitigis: for the most part royal rescripts addressed to foreign powers and to officials of the kingdom.

George Gissing - By the Ionian Sea : Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy

There are, indeed, some rescripts of Domitian to Avidius Nigrinus and Armenhis Brocchus, which ought to be observed; but Bithynia is not comprehended in the provinces therein mentioned.

the Younger Pliny - The Letters of Pliny the Younger