Word for the day: prescription

prescription |prɪˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n|                                  *prescripción (en Español)


DEFINITIONnoun1 an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment: he scribbled a prescription for tranquillizers | [ mass noun ] : the lotion is available on prescription .• [ mass noun ] the action of prescribing amedicine or treatment: the unnecessaryprescription of antibiotics.• a medicine or remedy that is prescribed:I've got to pick up my prescription from the chemist's.2 a recommendation that is authoritatively put forward: effective prescriptions for sustaining rural communities.3 (also positive prescription ) [ mass noun] Law the establishment of a claim founded on the basis of a long or indefinite period of uninterrupted use or of long-standingcustom.

ORIGIN late Middle English (as a legal term): via Old French from Latin praescriptio(n-), from the verb praescribere (see prescribe).Sense 1 dates from the late 16th cent.

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