redecraft

noun

1. (obsolete)The class of subjects for study that rely upon logic and reasoning, as opposed to experimentation and observation.

   “A flaw or an unsoundness in redecraft is a thought-putting which is unsound or cheatsome or guilesome.”

   “These are, in redecraft, the English language and literature, mathematics, psychology; in handcraft, the physical sciences, physics, chemistry, biology; with regular and ample laboratory work in each.”

   “Accordingly, that institution or school is best which enforces habits of order, attention, obedience, discrimination, memory ; which then secures skill in handcraft and redecraft, and likewise shows how these habits and this skill may be applied in useful avocations.”