Prescription

Noun

 * 1)  The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..
 * "Jurisdiction to prescribe" is a state's authority to make its laws applicable to certain persons or activities. -- Richard G. Alexander, Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996: Congress exceeds its jurisdiction to prescribe law. Washington and Lee Law Review, 1997.
 * 1)  A period of time within which a right must be exercised, unless the right is extinguished.
 * The prescription governing the victim’s right to enter a charge shall be interrupted by virtue of section 95 of the Criminal Code.
 * 1)  A written order, as by a physician, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention.  See also scrip.
 * The surgeon wrote a prescription for a pain killer and physical therapy.
 * 1)  The medicine or intervention so prescribed.
 * The pharmacist gave her a bottle containing her prescription.
 * 1)  The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..
 * The optician followed the optometrist's prescription for her new eyeglasses.
 * 1) An advice.
 * "Early to bed and early to rise" is a prescription for a healthy lifestyle.

Adjective
prescription


 * 1) (of a drug, etc.) only available with a physician's written prescription
 * Many powerful pain killers are prescription drugs in the U.S.

Adjectives for Prescription
favorite; exclusive; specific; deep-rooted; legal; unfailing; definite; mystic; age-old.

Verbs for Prescription
acquire—; addict to—; adhere to—; concoct —; dispense—s; fill—; follow—; formulate —; issue—; mix—; order—; recommend—; require—; write—; —alleviates; —eases; —instructs; —palliates; —relieves; —remedies; —soothes.

Thesaurus
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

Alternative forms

 * præscription

Noun

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 * Greek: παραγραφή (δικαιώματος)
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 * Arabic: (wáSfa(t) Tabíyya)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 藥方, 药方
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 * Georgian: რეცეპტი
 * German: ,
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 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 処方
 * Korean: 처방 (cheobang)
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: resept
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, предписание
 * Scottish Gaelic: riaghailt-lèigh
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 * Spanish:, medicinas


 * Finnish:
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 * Norwegian: brilleseddel
 * Spanish: receta

Adjective

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: resepti-
 * French: à prescription
 * German:


 * Macedonian: препишан
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: recetado, recetario
 * Swedish: receptbelagd