prescript

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English

Etymology

Latin praescriptum: compare Old French prescript.

Pronunciation

Noun

prescript (plural prescripts)

  1. Something prescribed; a rule, regulation or dictate.
    • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
      By his prescript a sanctuary is framed
      Of cedar
  2. (obsolete) A medical prescription.
    • 1661, John Fell, The life of the most learned, reverend, and pious Dr. H. Hammond:
      Nor did he ever with so much regret submit unto any prescript, as when his physicians, after his great fever that he had in Oxford , required him to eat suppers.

Adjective

prescript (not comparable)

  1. Directed; prescribed.
    • 1651, Jer Taylor, “Section I”, in Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. , London: R Royston , published 1655, →OCLC, paragraph 7, page 4:
      A Holy place is ſomething, a ſeparate time is ſomething, a preſcript form of words is more, and ſeparate and ſolemn actions are more yet; but all theſe are made common by a common perſon, and therefore without a diſtinction of perſons have not a natural and reaſonable diſtinction and ſolemnity and exterior religion.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praescriptum.

Noun

prescript n (plural prescripte)

  1. prescription

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative prescript prescriptul prescripte prescriptele
genitive-dative prescript prescriptului prescripte prescriptelor
vocative prescriptule prescriptelor

References

  • prescript in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN