prescription

  • 21PRESCRIPTION — n. f. Ordre, précepte. Les prescriptions de la loi. Les prescriptions de la morale. Prescription médicale, Ordonnance de médecin. PRESCRIPTION se dit, en termes de Jurisprudence, de l’Acquisition de la propriété d’une chose, par une possession… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 22prescription — pre|scrip|tion [ prı skrıpʃən ] noun * 1. ) count a piece of paper that a doctor gives you that says what type of medication you need: The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics. a ) count a particular medication that a doctor has told you …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 23prescription — [[t]prɪskrɪ̱pʃ(ə)n[/t]] prescriptions 1) N COUNT A prescription is the piece of paper on which your doctor writes an order for medicine and which you give to a chemist or pharmacist to get the medicine. You will have to take your prescription to… …

    English dictionary

  • 24PRESCRIPTION — s. f. T. de Jurispr. Manière d acquérir la propriété d une chose, par la possession non interrompue pendant un temps que la loi détermine, ou de se libérer d une dette, quand le créancier a laissé passer un certain temps sans en demander le… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 25prescription — A direction of remedy or remedies for a disease, illness, or injury and the manner of using them. Also, a formula for the preparation of a drug or medicine. Prescription is a peremptory and perpetual bar to every species of action, real or… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 26Prescription — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Sur les autres projets Wikimedia : « Prescription », sur le Wiktionnaire (dictionnaire universel) en droit : la prescription Ensemble… …

    Wikipédia en Français

  • 27prescription — noun 1 (C) a piece of paper on which a doctor writes what medicine a sick person should have, so that they can get it from a pharmacist 2 (C) a particular medicine or treatment ordered by a doctor for a sick person: Prescriptions used to be free… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 28prescription — The acquisition of an easement by adverse user under claim of right for the prescriptive period. The acquisition of incorporeal hereditaments by adverse user. Plaza v Flak, 7 NJ 215, 81 A2d 137, 27 ALR2d 324. A presumption of grant from long… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 29prescription — 1. noun a) The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc.. Jurisdiction to prescribe is a states authority to make its laws applicable to certain persons or activities. Richard G. Alexander, Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996: Congress exceeds its… …

    Wiktionary

  • 30prescription — noun 1) the doctor wrote a prescription Syn: instruction, authorization; informal scrip; archaic recipe 2) he fetched the prescription from the drug store Syn: medicine, drugs, medication 3) a painless prescription for improvement Syn …

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