prescribe /pri-skrībˈ/

1. To lay down as a rule or direction
2. To give as an order
3. To enjoin (archaic)
4. To give instructions for the preparation and dispensing of (a medicine, etc) or for (a certain procedure, diet, etc), as a remedy (medicine)
5. To limit, confine, set bounds to (obsolete)
6. To claim as a prescriptive right (law; obsolete)

1. To lay down rules
2. To give or make out a prescription (medicine)
3. To make a claim on account of long possession (with to, for; law)
4. To become unenforceable or invalid through time, to lapse (law)

prescribˈer noun

prescript /prēˈskript formerly -skriptˈ/ noun (archaic)

1. An ordinance or rule
2. A remedy or treatment prescribed

Prescribed

prescriptibilˈity /pri-/ noun

prescripˈtible adjective (law)

Subject to prescription

prescripˈtion noun

1. The act of prescribing or directing
2. A written direction for the preparation or dispensing of a medicine (by or on prescription (obtainable) on presentation of a doctor's prescription)
3. The medicine itself
4. A written description from an optician stating the type of lenses necessary to correct one's vision
5. A formula or recipe
6. (also positive prescription) the creation or fortification of a legal right to land or buildings through unchallenged use or possession for a fixed period of time (law)
7. (also negative prescription) the extinction of a legal right through failure to assert it by legal action within a fixed period of time (law)

prescripˈtive adjective

1. Prescribing, laying down rules
2. Pronouncing on right and wrong usage (linguistics)
3. (of a right, etc) consisting in, or acquired by, custom or long-continued use
4. Customary

prescripˈtively adverb

prescripˈtiveness noun

prescripˈtivism noun

1. (recommendation of) the practice of laying down rules, esp on correct and incorrect usage in language
2. The contention that moral pronouncements have prescriptive force in the manner of imperatives, and no truth value (philosophy)

prescripˈtivist noun

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