prescription
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
law
linguistics
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French prescripcion, from Latin praescriptio (“preface; pretext; something written ahead of time”), from prae- (“pre-, before”) + scribere (“to write”) + -tio (“-tion, forming nouns”). Equivalent to prescribe + -tion.
Base: prescribe
Affixes: -tion
Inflected forms:
form: prescriptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præscription
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The surgeon had written thousands of prescriptions for pain killers without proper examinations before the police raided the clinic.
An old traditional prescription for provoking erotic inclinations ran as follows, The toe of the foot of a man, anointed with oil, or honey, or the ashes of a weasel.
gloss: The medicine or treatment provided by such an order.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I need you to pick up gramma's prescriptions on your way home.
"Oh, yes; she is the only sort of person for a nurse. She always," cried Lady Anne, with a sneer, "comes to you with a receipt for a pudding in one hand to make you ill, and then a prescription in the other to cure you."
gloss: Any plan of treatment or handling; the treatment or handling thus provided.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Early to bed and early to rise is a prescription for a long, healthy, and terrible life.
Change is the universal prescription for a wounded spirit. "It will do you so much good," is the constant remark.
...looking at him I saw that I had been wrong in my prescription, if not in my diagnosis, and that the whisky was working against us.
gloss: Synonym of enactment, the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A statute that cannot find justification for its prescription in one or more of these principles violates international law.
gloss: The act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use; an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of self-restraint, limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: There is an air of prescription about him which is always agreeable to Sir Leicester; he receives it as a kind of tribute.
Related words: prescribe
prescriptivism
Derived words: coprescription
deprescription
e-prescription
misprescription
nonprescription
non-prescription
overprescription
prescription bottle
prescription drug
prescription glasses
prescriptionist
prescriptionistic
prescriptionless
represcription
underprescription
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: taalregulering
lang: French
word: prescription
lang: Polish
word: preskrypcja
lang: Polish
word: kodyfikacja normatywna
lang: Polish
word: kodyfikacja preskryptywna
lang: Romanian
word: prescripție
lang: Russian
word: прескри́пция
roman: preskrípcija
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pròpis
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: preskrìpcija
lang: Spanish
word: prescripción