forescript

A prescription.

Noun

  1. A prescription.
    • On this point all are agreed; on this and, I am sorry to say, on one other: qui medice vivit, misere vivit, "it is a miserable life to live after the physician's forescript." - 1886, The Popular Science Monthly, volume...
    • In the postscript or the forescript of Mr. Balfour's address he said, 'Vote for A. J. Balfour and peace with all the world.' (Laughter.) That was not exactly the phrase that he should pick out as fitted for the...
    • So is the postscript . . . begins from the seventh day with creases on the face of the tendril the waves within the fire within the fire without the waves without after the forescript. - 2006, Obari Gomba, George Bush...

Origin

From fore- + script.

Forms

forescripts