prescript

Latin praescriptum: compare Old French prescript.

• (noun, adjective) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiːskɹɪpt/

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• IPA^(key): (verb) /pɹɪˈskɹɪpt/

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prescript (plural prescripts)

1. Something prescribed; a rule, regulation or dictate.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     By his prescript a sanctuary is framed
     Of cedar

2. (obsolete) A medical prescription.
   • 1661, John Fell, The life of the most learned, reverend, and pious Dr. H. Hammond:

     Nor did he ever with so much regret submit unto any prescript, as when his physicians, after his great fever that he had in Oxford , required him to eat suppers.

prescript (not comparable)

1. Directed; prescribed.
   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Section I”, in Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. […], London: […] R[ichard] Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC, paragraph 7, page 4:

     A Holy place is ſomething, a ſeparate time is ſomething, a preſcript form of words is more, and ſeparate and ſolemn actions are more yet; but all theſe are made common by a common perſon, and therefore without a diſtinction of perſons have not a natural and reaſonable diſtinction and ſolemnity and exterior religion.

Borrowed from Latin praescriptum.

prescript n (plural prescripte)

1. prescription

• prescript in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN