English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French prescripcion, from Latin praescriptio.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /pɹəˈskɹɪpʃən/, (proscribed) /pɝˈskɹɪpʃən/
Noun[edit]
prescription (countable and uncountable, plural prescriptions)
- (law)
- The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..
- “Jurisdiction to prescribe” is a state’s authority to make its laws applicable to certain persons or activities. — Richard G. Alexander, Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996: Congress exceeds its jurisdiction to prescribe law. Washington and Lee Law Review, 1997.
- Also called extinctive prescription or liberative prescription. A time period within which a right must be exercised, otherwise it will be extinguished.
- Also called acquisitive prescription. A time period after which a person who has, in the role of an owner, uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly possessed another’s property acquires the property. The described process is known as acquisition by prescription and adverse possession.
- The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..
- (medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
- The surgeon wrote a prescription for a pain killer and physical therapy.
- (medicine) The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.
- The pharmacist gave her a bottle containing her prescription.
- (ophthalmology) The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..
- The optician followed the optometrist’s prescription for her new eyeglasses.
- (linguistics) The act or practice of laying down norms of language usage, as opposed to description, i.e. recording and describing actual usage.
- (linguistics) An instance of a prescriptive pronouncement.
- A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a recipe.
- “Early to bed and early to rise” is a prescription for a healthy lifestyle.
- (obsolete) Circumscription; restraint; limitation.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 2:
- There is an air of prescription about him which is always agreeable to Sir Leicester; he receives it as a kind of tribute. … It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of the legal cellar, of the Dedlocks.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 2:
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Translations[edit]
the act of prescribing a rule or law
extinctive or liberative prescription
usucapion, acquisitive prescription
written order for the administration of a medicine
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formal description of the lens geometry
the act or practice of laying down norms of language usage
prescriptive pronouncement
plan or procedure to obtain a given end result
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Adjective[edit]
prescription (not comparable)
- (of a drug, etc.) only available with a physician or nurse practitioner’s written prescription
- Many powerful pain killers are prescription drugs in the U.S.
Translations[edit]
available with prescription
See also[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French prescripcion, borrowed from Latin praescriptio, praescriptionem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
prescription f (plural prescriptions)
- prescription (all senses)
Etymology[edit]
From Old French prescripcion, borrowed from Latin praescriptio, praescriptionem.
Noun[edit]
prescription f (plural prescriptions)
- (Jersey) prescription
