Word Meanings - PRESCRIPTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: 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, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRESCRIPTION)

• Custom
• Manner
• habit
• use
• usage
• fashion
• practice
• prescription
• Routine
• Round
• course
• succession
• order
• rule
• custom
• system
• sequence
• gradation
• rotation
• stereotype
• tenor
• uniformity
• method
• settlement
• regulation

Related words: (words related to PRESCRIPTION)

• STEREOTYPER
  One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• FASHION-MONGERING
  Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
• FASHIONED
  Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
• FASHION-MONGER
  One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• HABITED
  1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• COURSED
  1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
• FASHIONABLY
  In a fashionable manner.
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• METHOD
  Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course;
• COURSE
  1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
• CUSTOM
  Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• COHABITER
  A cohabitant. Hobbes.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• RETROGRADATION
  1. The act of retrograding, or moving backward. 2. The state of being retrograde; decline.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• RECOURSEFUL
  Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.