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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prescription \Pre*scrip"tion\ (pr[-e]*skr[i^]p"sh[u^]n), noun [F. prescription, L. praescriptio, an inscription, preface, precept, demurrer, prescription (in sense 3), fr. praescribere. See {Prescribe}.]
1. The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.
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.
That profound reverence for law and prescription which has long been characteristic of Englishmen. --Macaulay.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Usucaption \U'su*cap"tion\ (?; 277), noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
prescription
adjective: available only with a doctor's written prescription; "a prescription drug" [syn: {prescription(a)}] [ant: {nonprescription(a)}]
noun
1: directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions; "I tried to follow her prescription for success"
2: 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 medicine}, {ethical drug}] [ant: {over-the-counter drug}, {over-the-counter drug}]
3: written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person
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
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
205 Moby Thesaurus words for "prescription": Procrustean law, 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, 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
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PRESCRIPTION, noun A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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