prescribableadj.
/prᵻˈskrʌɪbəbl/, U.S. /prəˈskraɪbəb(ə)l/, /priˈskraɪbəb(ə)l/ That can or may be prescribed; capable of being prescribed; spec. that may be officially prescribed by a doctor.
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1648 Earl of Westmorland Otia Sacra 72 What antidote prescribable, save hope.
1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor xxxvi. 337 There is no appositer remedy prescribable, then to narrowly regard youth, and to infuse proper and specifique seasoning into it.
1880 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 411/1 There is unquestionably no prescribable limit to the use of free..dissonances in modern harmony.
1938 Philos. Sci. 5 118 Experience follows no prescribable pattern.
1967 Economist 25 Feb. 708/1 The Central Health Services Council's committee on the classification of proprietary preparations has laid down for doctors' guidance its views on when a food is a food and not a drug and therefore not prescribable.
1995 Daily Tel. 22 Nov. 17/3 Formal psychoanalysis would not be appropriate unless she asked for it. ‘It is not a prescribable treatment; people have to seek it out if they want it.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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