prescript

American  

[pri-skript, pree-skript, pree-skript] / prɪˈskrɪpt, ˈpri skrɪpt, ˈpri skrɪpt /

adjective

1. prescribed.

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noun

1. that which is prescribed or laid down, as a rule, precept, or order.

prescript British  

noun

1. something laid down or prescribed

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adjective

1. prescribed as a rule

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.

Example Sentences

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

This is not to live according to the diet and prescript rule of the physicians, for you ought first to scour and cleanse your stomach of all its superfluities and excrements.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

A democracy, according to the prescript of pure reason, would, in fact, be a church.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Do not exceed The prescript of this scroll: our fortune lies Upon this jump.

From Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare, William