prescriptn.

Brit.

/ˈpriːskrɪpt/, U.S.

/ˈpriˌskrɪpt/,

/priˈskrɪpt/

Forms: 1500s prescripte, 1500s– prescript, 1600s 1800s praescript.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praescrīptum.

Etymology: < classical Latin praescrīptum precept, rule, ordinance, use as noun of neuter past participle of praescrībere prescribe v. In sense 3 after postscript n.¹ Compare Middle French prescript thing which is prescribed, ordinance (mid 16th cent.; French prescript , now only in sense ‘(in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant) duty, moral obligation’ (1842)). Compare earlier prescription n.¹ N.E.D. (1908) also gives the pronunciation (†prĭskri·pt)) /prɪˈskrɪpt/, marked as obsolete. In the following apparently a misprint for prescription n.¹ 1:1629 Vse of Law 85 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light In those cases prescripts will not serue, except it bee so ancient, that it hath had allowance before the Iustices in Eyre.

1. A thing which is prescribed or laid down as a rule; an ordinance, a law, a command; a direction, an instruction.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > [noun] > edict, decree, ordinance, or institute

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scite1656

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bull1696

ordonnance1702

subnotation1839

senatus consultum1875

fatwa1989

1532 R. Whittington tr. Erasmus De Ciuilitate Morun Puerilium sig. A1^v/2 Nat by cause thou nedest these prescriptes and rules.

?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. i. 19 Emonge artificers and husband men it is receaved as a prescripte that thei should sweate bie noe meanes.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxviii, in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 111 From his prescript another way they wend.

1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) iii. xxv. 143 Nor will..the attest or prescript of Philosophers..be a sufficient ground.

1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 624 To conduct the rest of their Lives according to the Prescripts of Chastity and Virtue.

1722 S. Acton Caveat to Ministers 14 We worship and serve him only,..renouncing all Prescripts devis'd, and given us by any Inferiour to himself.

1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 359 The legitimate contributions which he is to furnish according to the prescript of law.

1810 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 271 Having sate down in good earnest to exert my best faculties in the way dictated by my best judgment under the prescript of conscience.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 30 Aug. 5/1 Whether the French Government was consulted before the issue of the Prescript.

1907 Jrnl. Educ. Nov. 747/2 A prescript ordaining how & to what extent Latin is to be taught.

1996 Times 10 June 16/2 I remember meditating on the prescript, ‘Treasure your families’, and wanting it to be possible.

†2. A medical prescription (prescription n.¹ 5a). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [noun] > prescription or recipe

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Rx1911

scrip1917

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > prescribed medicine

receipt1421

recipe1533

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prescript1583

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medication1849

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xxxvii. 46 The tunicle must be saued by this forenamed prescript.

1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 45 Your prescript is compounded of these delicate simples, Brimstone, Assa fœtida, Galbanum, S. John's Wort, and Rue.

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. xxiii. 5) Like unto the foolish patient, which when the physician bids him take the prescript, eats up the paper.

1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea (title page) A Body of Prescripts.

1749 W. Shenstone Irregular Ode 52 The nymphs that heal the pensive mind, By prescripts more refin'd.

1873 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 401 Just proportion is of the essence of a prescript, and I have hitherto compounded this rare remedy but imperfectly.

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. vi. 159 A medical prescript, one of the grand specifics.

3. That which is written beforehand or at the front (of a book, paper, etc.); a preface, an introduction.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > matter preceding text > preface

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prescript1651

preliminary1888

prelims1921

1651 J. Price Musgrave Muzl'd 34 His Post-Script is as full of the same Spirit of Malice and Scandal as his Prescript, belching out falsities and forgeries by thousands.

1862 Earl Stanhope Life W. Pitt III. 408 He proposed that the paper should be sent unsigned, and with a Preface or Præscript as follows.

1994 Columbus Dispatch (Ohio) (Nexis) 1 May 6 g Little in the way of new text is supplied in this volume: the introduction, a prescript here, a postscript there.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† prescriptadj.¹

Forms: late Middle English prescryt, late Middle English–1500s prescripte, 1500s–1800s prescript.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praescrīptus.

Etymology: < classical Latin praescrīptus prescribed, appointed, use as adjective of past participle of praescrībere prescribe v. Compare Anglo-Norman prescript given the force of law through prescription (1394 in an apparently isolated attestation), Middle French, French †prescript, French prescrit acquired by prescription (a1372 or earlier), laid down beforehand (1544 or earlier), Italian prescritto laid down beforehand, also (in legal use) subject to prescription (a1374).With the form prescryt in quot. a1500 at sense 1 perhaps compare earlier prescit adj., and perhaps also Middle French prescript person destined to be damned (c1420, c1580 in two apparently isolated attestations; apparently semantically influenced by proscrire proscribe v.). N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (prĭskri·pt) /prɪˈskrɪpt/.

Obsolete.

1. Prescribed or laid down beforehand, esp. as a rule or direction; ordained, appointed, settled.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > command > command or bidding > [adjective] > ordaining, prescribing, or appointing > ordained, prescribed, or appointed

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ordered1780

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c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 161 Of oolde & laudabile and lawfully prescripte custome.

a1500 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Stowe) 20547 (MED) Prescryt [Fr. presceuz; a1475 Vitell. Yet som folk ben ordynat, And also predestynat, Prescyt to-forn to Ioye and blysse].

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Gii A prescripte and appointed some of money.

1586 Exam. H. Barrowe in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 19 Whether he thinketh that any leitourgies or prescript formes of prayer may be imposed vpon the church.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. vii. 45 The prescript prayse and perfection of a good and particular Mistresse.

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxiv. 290 The Prescript Rule of Hippocrates.

1710 W. Nicholls Comment Bk. Common-prayer Pref. The Church of Christ hath in all Ages had a prescript Form of Common-Prayer, or Divine Service.

1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 13 The prescript form to which the Church of Rome binds its clergy.

1877 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 6) VI. viii. 482 Trying to make prescript words perform the task of a General.

2. Circumscribed, limited, confined. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adjective]

narroweOE

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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective] > restricted or limited

narroweOE

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1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. 49 A prescript place like a Tub.

3. Acquired by or based on prescription; prescriptive. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > [adjective] > founded on prescription

prescript1652

prescriptive1688

1652 Dominium Maris 7 If any Doctors should..say, that the Republick hath a prescript Dominion over the Adriatick Sea, with a long possession, notwithstanding they prove it not.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

† prescriptadj.²

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pre- prefix, script n.¹

Etymology: < pre- prefix + script n.¹

Obsolete.

Before the age of writing.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1883 T. Kerslake in Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 7 283/1 The earlier southern incursions of the Patrician school [i.e. that of St Patrick] through the estuary of the Severn, were in a darker and prescript age.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

n.1532

adj.¹c1460

adj.²1883

单词	prescript
释义	prescriptn. Brit. /ˈpriːskrɪpt/, U.S. /ˈpriˌskrɪpt/, /priˈskrɪpt/ Forms: 1500s prescripte, 1500s– prescript, 1600s 1800s praescript. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praescrīptum. Etymology: < classical Latin praescrīptum precept, rule, ordinance, use as noun of neuter past participle of praescrībere prescribe v. In sense 3 after postscript n.¹ Compare Middle French prescript thing which is prescribed, ordinance (mid 16th cent.; French prescript , now only in sense ‘(in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant) duty, moral obligation’ (1842)). Compare earlier prescription n.¹ N.E.D. (1908) also gives the pronunciation (†prĭskri·pt)) /prɪˈskrɪpt/, marked as obsolete. In the following apparently a misprint for prescription n.¹ 1:1629 Vse of Law 85 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light In those cases prescripts will not serue, except it bee so ancient, that it hath had allowance before the Iustices in Eyre. 1. A thing which is prescribed or laid down as a rule; an ordinance, a law, a command; a direction, an instruction. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > edict, decree, ordinance, or institute doomc825 i-setnessec900 setnessc950 edict1297 statutec1300 purveyancea1325 assize1330 ordinancec1330 decreetc1374 constitutionc1380 decree?a1400 sizea1400 stablementc1400 edictionc1470 stablishment1473 ordinationc1499 estatutea1514 placarda1530 prescript1532 golden bull1537 rescript1545 institute1546 institution1551 constitutec1561 sanction1570 decretal1588 ordain1596 decretum1602 invention1639 scite1656 dispositive1677 bull1696 ordonnance1702 subnotation1839 senatus consultum1875 fatwa1989 1532 R. Whittington tr. Erasmus De Ciuilitate Morun Puerilium sig. A1^v/2 Nat by cause thou nedest these prescriptes and rules. ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. i. 19 Emonge artificers and husband men it is receaved as a prescripte that thei should sweate bie noe meanes. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxviii, in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 111 From his prescript another way they wend. 1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) iii. xxv. 143 Nor will..the attest or prescript of Philosophers..be a sufficient ground. 1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 624 To conduct the rest of their Lives according to the Prescripts of Chastity and Virtue. 1722 S. Acton Caveat to Ministers 14 We worship and serve him only,..renouncing all Prescripts devis'd, and given us by any Inferiour to himself. 1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 359 The legitimate contributions which he is to furnish according to the prescript of law. 1810 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 271 Having sate down in good earnest to exert my best faculties in the way dictated by my best judgment under the prescript of conscience. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 30 Aug. 5/1 Whether the French Government was consulted before the issue of the Prescript. 1907 Jrnl. Educ. Nov. 747/2 A prescript ordaining how & to what extent Latin is to be taught. 1996 Times 10 June 16/2 I remember meditating on the prescript, ‘Treasure your families’, and wanting it to be possible. †2. A medical prescription (prescription n.¹ 5a). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [noun] > prescription or recipe receipta1398 recipe1533 billa1535 prescription1568 prescript1583 physic-bill1614 script1887 Rx1911 scrip1917 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > prescribed medicine receipt1421 recipe1533 reset1564 recept1576 prescript1583 prescription1679 medication1849 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xxxvii. 46 The tunicle must be saued by this forenamed prescript. 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 45 Your prescript is compounded of these delicate simples, Brimstone, Assa fœtida, Galbanum, S. John's Wort, and Rue. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. xxiii. 5) Like unto the foolish patient, which when the physician bids him take the prescript, eats up the paper. 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea (title page) A Body of Prescripts. 1749 W. Shenstone Irregular Ode 52 The nymphs that heal the pensive mind, By prescripts more refin'd. 1873 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 401 Just proportion is of the essence of a prescript, and I have hitherto compounded this rare remedy but imperfectly. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. vi. 159 A medical prescript, one of the grand specifics. 3. That which is written beforehand or at the front (of a book, paper, etc.); a preface, an introduction.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > matter preceding text > preface forespeechc1000 prefacec1380 prefationc1390 entrya1425 prelude1548 prescript1651 preliminary1888 prelims1921 1651 J. Price Musgrave Muzl'd 34 His Post-Script is as full of the same Spirit of Malice and Scandal as his Prescript, belching out falsities and forgeries by thousands. 1862 Earl Stanhope Life W. Pitt III. 408 He proposed that the paper should be sent unsigned, and with a Preface or Præscript as follows. 1994 Columbus Dispatch (Ohio) (Nexis) 1 May 6 g Little in the way of new text is supplied in this volume: the introduction, a prescript here, a postscript there. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † prescriptadj.¹ Forms: late Middle English prescryt, late Middle English–1500s prescripte, 1500s–1800s prescript. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praescrīptus. Etymology: < classical Latin praescrīptus prescribed, appointed, use as adjective of past participle of praescrībere prescribe v. Compare Anglo-Norman prescript given the force of law through prescription (1394 in an apparently isolated attestation), Middle French, French †prescript, French prescrit acquired by prescription (a1372 or earlier), laid down beforehand (1544 or earlier), Italian prescritto laid down beforehand, also (in legal use) subject to prescription (a1374).With the form prescryt in quot. a1500 at sense 1 perhaps compare earlier prescit adj., and perhaps also Middle French prescript person destined to be damned (c1420, c1580 in two apparently isolated attestations; apparently semantically influenced by proscrire proscribe v.). N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (prĭskri·pt) /prɪˈskrɪpt/. Obsolete. 1. Prescribed or laid down beforehand, esp. as a rule or direction; ordained, appointed, settled. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > [adjective] > ordaining, prescribing, or appointing > ordained, prescribed, or appointed setc1050 assignedc1374 ordaineda1382 peremptor1397 prescriptc1460 constitute1483 prescribedc1503 assigneea1513 stinteda1513 peremptory1513 pointed1523 appointed1535 state1581 statuted1606 stated1644 instituted1647 constituted1651 indictive1656 indicteda1706 issued1760 prescriptive1765 ordered1780 mandated1944 c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 161 Of oolde & laudabile and lawfully prescripte custome. a1500 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Stowe) 20547 (MED) Prescryt [Fr. presceuz; a1475 Vitell. Yet som folk ben ordynat, And also predestynat, Prescyt to-forn to Ioye and blysse]. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Gii A prescripte and appointed some of money. 1586 Exam. H. Barrowe in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 19 Whether he thinketh that any leitourgies or prescript formes of prayer may be imposed vpon the church. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. vii. 45 The prescript prayse and perfection of a good and particular Mistresse. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxiv. 290 The Prescript Rule of Hippocrates. 1710 W. Nicholls Comment Bk. Common-prayer Pref. The Church of Christ hath in all Ages had a prescript Form of Common-Prayer, or Divine Service. 1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 13 The prescript form to which the Church of Rome binds its clergy. 1877 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 6) VI. viii. 482 Trying to make prescript words perform the task of a General. 2. Circumscribed, limited, confined. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adjective] narroweOE restraint1445 modifiedc1485 limitate1541 restricteda1550 strait-laced1549 scant1556 circumcised1561 contract1561 restrained1578 determinate1586 limited1590 restrict1597 strict1597 confined1605 determineda1616 limitary1620 prescript1645 modificated1646 circumscribed1647 conscribed1654 limitated1654 reserved1654 coarctated1655 straiteneda1665 unabsolute1694 stinted1710 bounded1711 contracted1711 cramped1741 special1815 municipal1856 fine-cut1894 stingy1927 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective] > restricted or limited narroweOE restraint1445 modifiedc1485 limitate1541 restricteda1550 scant1556 contract1561 limited1590 confined1605 limitary1620 prescript1645 modificated1646 circumscribed1647 limitated1654 reserved1654 coarctated1655 unabsolute1694 bounded1711 contracted1711 cramped1741 crimped1828 stingy1927 1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. 49 A prescript place like a Tub. 3. Acquired by or based on prescription; prescriptive. rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [adjective] > founded on prescription prescript1652 prescriptive1688 1652 Dominium Maris 7 If any Doctors should..say, that the Republick hath a prescript Dominion over the Adriatick Sea, with a long possession, notwithstanding they prove it not. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † prescriptadj.² Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pre- prefix, script n.¹ Etymology: < pre- prefix + script n.¹ Obsolete. Before the age of writing.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1883 T. Kerslake in Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 7 283/1 The earlier southern incursions of the Patrician school [i.e. that of St Patrick] through the estuary of the Severn, were in a darker and prescript age. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1532adj.¹c1460adj.²1883
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prescriptn.

† prescriptadj.1

† prescriptadj.2

† prescriptadj.¹

† prescriptadj.²