Word Meanings - PRESCRIPTIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Depending on, or derived from, prescription; proper to be prescribed. Grafton.

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• PROPER
  Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
• DERIVE
  To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior.
• DEPENDENT
  1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining;
• DEPENDENCY
  1. State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust. Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other. Sir J. Reynolds. So that
• PROPERLY
  1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
• PROPERNESS
  1. The quality of being proper. 2. Tallness; comeliness. Udall.
• PROPERATE
  To hasten, or press forward.
• DEPENDABLE
  Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy. "Dependable friendships." Pope.
• PROPERTIED
  Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.
• DERIVATIONAL
  Relating to derivation. Earle.
• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• DERIVATION
  The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration. (more info) 1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. T. Burnet. 2.
• PROPERISPOME
  Properispomenon.
• DEPENDER
  One who depends; a dependent.
• PRESCRIPTION
  A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy. (more info) inscription, preface, precept, demurrer, prescription , 1. The act of prescribing, directing,
• PRESCRIBER
  One who prescribes.
• DERIVEMENT
  That which is derived; deduction; inference. I offer these derivements from these subjects. W. Montagu.
• DERIVER
  One who derives.
• DEPEND
  Etym: 1. To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. And ever-living lamps depend in rows. Pope. 2. To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court. You will
• PROPERISPOMENON
  A word which has the circumflex accent on the penult.
• INDEPENDENCY
  Doctrine and polity of the Independents. (more info) 1. Independence. "Give me," I cried , "My bread, and independency!" Pope.
• SELF-DEPENDING
  Depending on one's self.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• BY-DEPENDENCE
  An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• INTERDEPENDENT
  Mutually dependent.
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.
• INTERDEPENDENCY
  Mutual dependence; as, interdependency of interests. De Quincey.
• PROPERTY
  All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
• INDEPENDENCE
  1. The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self- subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as