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Prescription

//pɹəˈskɹɪpʃən// noun

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Adjective

1
available only with a doctor's written prescription wordnet

Noun

1
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. countable, uncountable
"The surgeon had written thousands of prescriptions for pain killers without proper examinations before the police raided the clinic."
2
a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist wordnet
3
The medicine or treatment provided by such an order. countable, uncountable
"I need you to pick up gramma's prescriptions on your way home."
4
written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient wordnet
5
Any plan of treatment or handling; the treatment or handling thus provided. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"Early to bed and early to rise is a prescription for a long, healthy, and terrible life."

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6
written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person wordnet
7
Synonym of enactment, the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this. countable, uncountable
"A statute that cannot find justification for its prescription in one or more of these principles violates international law."
8
directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions wordnet
9
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. countable, uncountable
10
An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable. countable, uncountable
11
An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it. countable, uncountable
12
Synonym of self-restraint, limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"There is an air of prescription about him which is always agreeable to Sir Leicester; he receives it as a kind of tribute."

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.

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