prescript
Americanadjective
noun
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of prescript
First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English (adjective), from Latin praescrīptus, past participle of praescrībere “to write down, direct, prescribe”; see pre-, script, prescribe.
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Example Sentences
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So you’ve got prescriptions for the future, but how do we even those prescript prescriptions are any good if you missed it in the past?
From Time ● Nov. 14, 2015
In fact, it rather closely parallels the old imperial prescript on education.
From Time Magazine Archive
For this procedure demands two requisites: one that the most urgent proofs stand against the accused, and the other that the crime be very atrocious, according to the prescript of the Bull.
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
Doing so, it was natural that he should choose to take refuge in a Britain beyond the ocean, where a brotherly welcome among his kindred awaited the political prescript.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 by Various
To let pass the solemn and nocturnal bacchanals, the prescript miracles, that are done upon certain days in the west part of England, who hath not heard?
From Sermons on the Card by Morley, Henry
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