prescript
Something prescribed; a rule, regulation or dictate.
Adjective
- Directed; prescribed.
- 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...
Origin
Latin praescriptum: compare Old French prescript.
Noun
- Something prescribed; a rule, regulation or dictate.
- By his prescript a sanctuary is framed Of cedar - 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert...
- A medical prescription.
- 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. - 1661, John Fell, The life of the most learned,...