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Verb
præscribe (third-person singular simple present præscribes, present participle præscribing, simple past and past participle præscribed or præscrib'd)
- Archaic spelling of prescribe.
- 1572–1637: Ben Jonson; his text quoted and discussed in:
- 1954: Charles Harold Herford , Percy Simpson , Evelyn Mary Spearing Simpson , Ben Jonson, page 273 (Clarendon Press)
- The classical spellings not preserved in the printed text are — ‘ æquall ’ (dedication, l. 10 and l. 616), ‘ æqually ’ (l. 576), ‘ æquality ’ (l. 578), ‘ præscrib’d ’ (l. 38), ‘ fruicts ’ (l. 144) and ‘ fruictfully ’