Prescription vs. Proscription

Prescription vs. Proscription — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Prescription and Proscription

Prescriptionnoun

(legal)

Proscriptionnoun

A prohibition.

Prescriptionnoun

The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..

Proscriptionnoun

(history) Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.

Prescriptionnoun

Also called limitation and negative prescription. A time period within which a right must be exercised, unless the right will be extinguished.

Proscriptionnoun

The act of proscribing, or its result.

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Prescriptionnoun

Also called acquisitive prescription and positive 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.

Proscriptionnoun

A decree or law that prohibits.

Prescriptionnoun

A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.

Proscriptionnoun

a decree that prohibits something

Prescriptionnoun

(medicine) The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.

Proscriptionnoun

rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone

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Prescriptionnoun

(ophthalmology) The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..

Prescriptionnoun

(linguistics) The act or practice of prescribing norms of language usage. See also prescriptivism.

Prescriptionnoun

(linguistics) An instance of a prescriptive pronouncement.

Prescriptionnoun

A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a recipe.

Prescriptionadjective

only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription

Many powerful pain killers are prescription drugs in the U.S.

Prescriptionnoun

directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions;

I tried to follow her prescription for success

Prescriptionnoun

a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist;

he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly

Prescriptionnoun

written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person

Prescriptionnoun

written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient

Prescriptionadjective

available only with a doctor's written prescription;

a prescription drugnonprescription drugsan over-the-counter cold remedy