Prescriptions

What do we mean by prescriptions?

The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..

Also called extinctive prescription or liberative prescription. A time period within which a right must be exercised, otherwise it will be extinguished.

Also called acquisitive prescription. A time period after which a person who has, in the role of an owner, uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly possessed another's property acquires the property. The described process is known as acquisition by prescription and adverse possession.

A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.

The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.

The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..

The act or practice of laying down norms of language usage, as opposed to description, i.e. recording and describing actual usage.

An instance of a prescriptive pronouncement.

A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a recipe.

Circumscription; restraint; limitation.

Words that are spelled similarly to prescriptions:
prescriptions, prescription, proscriptions, proscription, descriptions, rescription, perscriptions, prescribtion, presciption.

Words that rhyme with prescriptions:
egyptians, descriptions, inscriptions, subscriptions, transcriptions.

Adjectives that are often used to describe prescriptions:
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Consonant match to prescriptions:
proscriptions.

Words that sound like prescriptions:
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