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Prescript   Listen
noun
Prescript  n.  
1.
Direction; precept; model prescribed.
2.
A medical prescription. (Obs.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... unto truth, as soone as he shall discerne the same, whether it proceed from his adversarie, or upon better advice from himselfe; for he shall not be preferred to any place of eminencie above others, for repeating of a prescript [Footnote: Fixed beforehand.] part; and he is not engaged to defend any cause, further than he may approove it; nor shall he bee of that trade where the libertie for a man to repent and re-advise himselfe ...
— Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various
... itself very tractable and pliable. That rational essence that doth govern it, hath in itself no cause to do evil. It hath no evil in itself; neither can it do anything that is evil: neither can anything be hurt by it. And all things are done and determined according to its will and prescript. ...
— Meditations • Marcus Aurelius
... matins with coughing and supper with drinking. Let us now, in doing clean contrarily, begin our matins with drinking, and at night before supper we shall cough as hard as we can. What, said Gargantua, to drink so soon after sleep? This is not to live according to the diet and prescript rule of the physicians, for you ought first to scour and cleanse your stomach of all its superfluities and excrements. Oh, well physicked, said the monk; a hundred devils leap into my body, if there be not more old drunkards ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais


Words linked to "Prescript" :   rubric, rule, order, instruction, precept, rule book, dictate, communications protocol, regulation, direction, parliamentary law, principle, GIGO, Miranda rule


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