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A prescript is an official order or rule — something written down that you are meant to follow. It is a rare, formal noun. Lawyers, theologians, and old books use it; friends in a café do not. You will far more often meet prescription (a doctor’s note, or a stronger “this is the rule”) and . There is also a dusty adjective use, meaning already laid down, but you can live a full English life without needing it. Though actually, when people reach for this word they sometimes want precept (a moral teaching) or script (the written words of a play). Prescript is narrower: a rule set down, with the feel of something inscribed in front of you. If your sentence still works with “rule” or “regulation,” those plainer words are usually kinder to a listener.
規定、訓令。非常書面;日常說「規定」即可。
組成From Latin praescriptum, something written beforehand; compare Old French prescript.
同家族的字
- prescribethe verb for laying a rule (or a medicine) down
- prescriptionthe commoner noun from the same Latin writing-before
- scriptshares Latin scribere, to write; a script is the writing, a prescript is a rule written in advance
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
prescriptnoun/ˈpɹiːskɹɪpt/
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Something prescribed; a rule, regulation or dictate.
- By his prescript a sanctuary is framed Of cedar
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obsoleteA medical prescription.
- Nor did he ever with so much regret submit unto any prescript, as when his physicians, after his great fever that he had in Oxford , required him to eat suppers.
prescriptadj/ˈpɹiːskɹɪpt/
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Directed; prescribed.
- A Holy place is ſomething, a ſeparate time is ſomething, a preſcript form of words is more, and ſeparate and ſolemn actions are more yet; but all theſe are made common by a common perſon, and therefore without a diſtinction of perſons have not a natural and reaſonable diſtinction and ſolemnity and exterior religion.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。