| 释义 |
prescribe /pri-skrībˈ/ transitive verb- To lay down as a rule or direction
- To give as an order
- To enjoin (archaic)
- To give instructions for the preparation and dispensing of (a medicine, etc) or for (a certain procedure, diet, etc), as a remedy (medicine)
- To limit, confine, set bounds to (obsolete)
- To claim as a prescriptive right (law; obsolete)
intransitive verb- To lay down rules
- To give or make out a prescription (medicine)
- To make a claim on account of long possession (with to, for; law)
- To become unenforceable or invalid through time, to lapse (law)
ORIGIN: L praescrībere, -scrīptum to write before, lay down in advance, object to, from prae before, in front, and scrībere to write prescribˈer noun prescript /prēˈskript formerly -skriptˈ/ noun (archaic) - An ordinance or rule
- A remedy or treatment prescribed
adjective /prēˈ or -skriptˈ/ (rare)Prescribed prescriptibilˈity /pri-/ noun prescripˈtible adjective (law) Subject to prescription prescripˈtion noun - The act of prescribing or directing
- A written direction for the preparation or dispensing of a medicine (by or on prescription (obtainable) on presentation of a doctor's prescription)
- The medicine itself
- A written description from an optician stating the type of lenses necessary to correct one's vision
- A formula or recipe
- (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)
- (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 - Prescribing, laying down rules
- Pronouncing on right and wrong usage (linguistics)
- (of a right, etc) consisting in, or acquired by, custom or long-continued use
- Customary
prescripˈtively adverb prescripˈtiveness noun prescripˈtivism noun - (recommendation of) the practice of laying down rules, esp on correct and incorrect usage in language
- The contention that moral pronouncements have prescriptive force in the manner of imperatives, and no truth value (philosophy)
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