'Prescription' definitions:
Definition of 'prescription'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Available only with a doctor's written prescription; "a prescription drug" [ant: nonprescription(a), over-the- counter(a)]
noun
Directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions; "I tried to follow her prescription for success"
noun
A drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist; "he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly" [syn: prescription drug, prescription, prescription medicine, ethical drug] [ant: over-the-counter drug, over-the- counter medicine]
noun
Written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person
noun
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
Definition of 'Prescription'
From: GCIDE
- Prescription \Pre*scrip"tion\ (pr[-e]*skr[i^]p"sh[u^]n), n. [F. prescription, L. praescriptio, an inscription, preface, precept, demurrer, prescription (in sense 3), fr. praescribere. See Prescribe.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy. Hence: a written order from a physician for a medication, which allows a patient to legally obtain medication which is required by law to be dispensed only on authorization from a physician or other qualified medical practitioner. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 3. (Law) A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue of immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- That profound reverence for law and prescription which has long been characteristic of Englishmen. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Prescription differs from custom, which is a local usage, while prescription is personal, annexed to the person only. Prescription only extends to incorporeal rights, such as a right of way, or of common. What the law gives of common rights is not the subject of prescription. --Blackstone. --Cruise. --Kent. In Scotch law, prescription is employed in the sense in which limitation is used in England and America, namely, to express that operation of the lapse of time by which obligations are extinguished or title protected. --Sir T. Craig. --Erskine. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'prescription'
From: GCIDE
- Usucaption \U`su*cap"tion\ (?; 277), n. [L. usucapere, usucaptum, to acquire by long use; usu (ablative of usus use) + capere to take: cf. usucapio usucaption.] (Roman Law) The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'prescription'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act,
- adverse possession,
- aid,
- alodium,
- alterative,
- analeptic,
- appurtenance,
- assistance,
- authority,
- balm,
- balsam,
- bill,
- birthright,
- bon ton,
- boundary,
- bounds,
- burgage,
- bylaw,
- canon,
- charge,
- claim,
- code,
- colony,
- command,
- commission,
- confinement,
- conformity,
- conjugal right,
- consuetude,
- continence,
- convention,
- corrective,
- criterion,
- cure,
- custom,
- de facto,
- de jure,
- decree,
- decretum,
- demand,
- dependency,
- derivative title,
- dictate,
- dictation,
- direction,
- directive,
- discipline,
- divine right,
- droit,
- drug,
- due,
- edict,
- enactment,
- established way,
- etiquette,
- faculty,
- fashion,
- fee fief,
- fee position,
- fee simple,
- fee simple absolute,
- fee simple conditional,
- fee simple defeasible,
- fee simple determinable,
- fee tail,
- feodum,
- feud,
- fiefdom,
- folkway,
- form,
- formality,
- formula,
- formulary,
- frankalmoign,
- free socage,
- freehold,
- gavelkind,
- general orders,
- guideline,
- having title to,
- healing agent,
- healing quality,
- help,
- hold,
- holding,
- inalienable right,
- injunction,
- institute,
- institution,
- instruction,
- interest,
- jus,
- knight service,
- law,
- law of nature,
- lay fee,
- lease,
- leasehold,
- legal claim,
- legal possession,
- legislation,
- lex,
- limit,
- limitation,
- mandate,
- manner,
- manners,
- maxim,
- measure,
- medicament,
- medication,
- medicine,
- moderation,
- mores,
- natural right,
- norm,
- norma,
- observance,
- occupancy,
- occupation,
- order,
- order of nature,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- original title,
- owning,
- possessing,
- possession,
- power,
- practice,
- praxis,
- precept,
- preoccupancy,
- preoccupation,
- preparation,
- prepossession,
- prerogative,
- prescribed form,
- prescript,
- presumptive right,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- principle,
- Procrustean law,
- proper claim,
- proper thing,
- property,
- property right,
- property rights,
- proprietary rights,
- proscription,
- qualification,
- receipt,
- recipe,
- regulation,
- relief,
- remedial measure,
- remedy,
- restorative,
- restrain,
- restriction,
- right,
- ritual,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- seisin,
- set form,
- socage,
- social convention,
- sovereign remedy,
- specific,
- specific remedy,
- squatting,
- standard,
- standard behavior,
- standard usage,
- standing custom,
- standing order,
- statute,
- sublease,
- succor,
- teaching,
- tenancy,
- tenantry,
- tenure,
- tenure in chivalry,
- time-honored practice,
- title,
- tradition,
- underlease,
- undertenancy,
- universal law,
- usage,
- use,
- usucapion,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- villein socage,
- villeinhold,
- villenage,
- way,
- what is done,
- wont,
- wonting