prescription

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French prescripcion, from Latin praescriptio (“preface; pretext; something written ahead of time”), from prae- (“pre-, before”) + scribere (“to write”) + -tio (“-tion, forming nouns”). Equivalent to prescribe + -tion.

Used in a sentence

• “The surgeon had written thousands of prescriptions for pain killers without proper examinations before the police raided the clinic.”

• “An old traditional prescription for provoking erotic inclinations ran as follows, The toe of the foot of a man, anointed with oil, or honey, or the ashes of a weasel.”

• “I need you to pick up gramma's prescriptions on your way home.”

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