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prescripts

prescripts is the plural of prescript.

Meaning of prescript

Noun

prescript (plural prescripts)

  1. Something prescribed; a rule, regulation or dictate.
    • By his prescript a sanctuary is framed
      Of cedar1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker...
  2. (obsolete) A medical prescription.
    • Nor did he ever with so much regret submit unto any prescript, as when his physicians, after his great fever that he had in Oxford , required him to eat suppers.1661, John Fell, The life of the most learned, reverend, and pious Dr. H. Hammond

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Questions about prescripts

What is prescripts the plural of?
Prescripts is the plural of prescript.

Words near prescripts in the dictionary

  1. prescriptivist
  2. prescriptivistic
  3. prescriptivists
  4. prescriptivity
  5. prescriptorial
  6. prescripts
  7. prescrotal
  8. prescuta
  9. prescutal
  10. prescutellar
  11. prescutum

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