NOUN
  • Definition - The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..
  • Example - "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.
  • Definition - Also called extinctive prescription or liberative prescription. A time period within which a right must be exercised, otherwise it will be extinguished.
  • Example - "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.
  • Definition - Also called acquisitive prescription. A time period after which a person who has, in the role of an owner, uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly possessed another's property acquires the property. The described process is known as acquisition by prescription and adverse possession.
  • Example - "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.
  • Definition - A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
  • Example - The surgeon wrote a prescription for a pain killer and physical therapy.
  • Definition - The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.
  • Example - The pharmacist gave her a bottle containing her prescription.
  • Definition - The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..
  • Example - The optician followed the optometrist's prescription for her new eyeglasses.
  • Definition - The act or practice of laying down norms of language usage, as opposed to description, i.e. recording and describing actual usage.
  • Example - The optician followed the optometrist's prescription for her new eyeglasses.
  • Definition - An instance of a prescriptive pronouncement.
  • Example - The optician followed the optometrist's prescription for her new eyeglasses.
  • Definition - A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a recipe.
  • Example - The optician followed the optometrist's prescription for her new eyeglasses.
  • Definition - Circumscription; restraint; limitation.
  • Example - The optician followed the optometrist's prescription for her new eyeglasses.
ADJECTIVE
  • Definition - (of a drug, etc.) only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription
  • Example - Many powerful pain killers are prescription drugs in the U.S.
Words in your word
12 Letter Words
prescription 18
10 Letter Words
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6 Letter Words
copper 12 peptic 12 precip 12 copens 10 copers 10 copier 10 copies 10 copter 10 corpse 10 crepon 10 cripes 10 incept 10 nipper 10 optics 10 pectin 10 pepino 10 pepsin 10 picots 10 pincer 10 pionic 10 pipers 10 pipets 10 pipier 10 pipits 10 poetic 10 ponces 10 popsie 10 potpie 10 precis 10 preops 10 pricer 10 prices 10 prince 10 proper 10 ripper 10 script 10 septic 10 sipper 10 sippet 10 spicer 10 tipper 10 topics 10 topper 10 tricep 10 tropic 10 censor 8 centos 8 cestoi 8 citers 8 cities 8
4 Letter Words
ceps 8 cope 8 cops 8 crip 8 crop 8 epic 8 pecs 8 pepo 8 peps 8 perc 8 perp 8 pice 8 pics 8 pipe 8 pips 8 pope 8 pops 8 prep 8 prop 8 repp 8 scop 8 spec 8 spic 8 cent 6 cero 6 cert 6 cine 6 cion 6 cire 6 cist 6 cite 6 coin 6 coir 6 cone 6 coni 6 cons 6 core 6 corn 6 cors 6 cost 6 cote 6 cots 6 cris 6 crit 6 ecos 6 epos 6 etic 6 ices 6 icon 6 nice 6
3 Letter Words
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2 Letter Words
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