Definition of "prescription"

prescription

/pɹəˈskɹɪpʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural prescriptions
1. (medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses.
2. (medicine) The medicine or treatment provided by such an order.
  Quotations
  "Oh, yes; she is the only sort of person for a nurse. She always," cried Lady Anne, with a sneer, "comes to you with a receipt for a pudding in one hand to make you ill, and then a prescription in the other to cure you."
  1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, page 9
3. (figurative) Any plan of treatment or planned treatment.
  Quotations
  Change is the universal prescription for a wounded spirit. "It will do you so much good," is the constant remark.
  1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Return to Courtenaye Hall”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 145
  ...looking at him I saw that I had been wrong in my prescription, if not in my diagnosis, and that the whisky was working against us.
  1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 157
4. (law) Synonym of enactment, the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.
  Quotations
  A statute that cannot find justification for its prescription in one or more of these principles violates international law.
  1997, Richard G. Alexander, “Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996: Congress Exceeds Its Jurisdiction to Prescribe Law”, in Washington & Lee Law Review, page 1609
5. (linguistics) The act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use; an instance of this.
6. (law) An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.
7. (law) An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.
8. (obsolete) Synonym of self-restraint, limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.
  Quotations
  There is an air of prescription about him which is always agreeable to Sir Leicester; he receives it as a kind of tribute.
  1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853
adjective
not comparable
1. only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription (of a drug, etc.)

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