Prescription vs. Proscription
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.
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
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 successPrescriptionnoun
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 regularlyPrescriptionnoun
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
