PRESCRIPT • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Prescript

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

Prescript n.

Direction; precept; model prescribed.

A medical prescription. (Obs.)

adjective

Prescript adj. Directed; prescribed. " A prescript from of words."

See images of 'Prescript'

Etymology of 'Prescript'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Prescript" Quotes from Famous Books

... desperate case, this vomit is to be taken. And yet for all this, if it be well prepared, it may be [4198] securely given at first. [4199]Matthiolus brags, that he hath often, to the good of many, made use of it, and Heurnius, [4200]"that he hath happily used it, prepared after his own prescript," and with good success. Christophorus a Vega, lib. 3. c. 41, is of the same opinion, that it may be lawfully given; and our country gentlewomen find it by their common practice, that there is no such great danger in it. Dr. Turner, speaking of this plant in ...

— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior

... All such rules are self-evident, and grow necessarily out of the general principle which demands of the functions of the body to subserve the attainment of self-sanctification. But we must now speak precisely of this sanctification, to point out briefly in what it consists. From the Divine prescript, "Sanctify yourselves because I am holy," we clearly conclude that the type of sanctification is to be sought, not in ourselves, but in God; therefore, to sanctify ourselves is to shape our own acts and will upon the ...

— A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth • Isaac Samuele Reggio