Definition of Prescription

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Prescription

The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.

A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy.

A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law.

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Prescription Quotations

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.
Steven Wright

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
Steven Wright

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan

To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
Vera Wang

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Benjamin Disraeli

To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.
James Caan

I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.
Cameron Diaz

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
Norman Cousins

Prescription Translations

prescription in Afrikaans is resep
prescription in Dutch is recept
prescription in French is ordonnance, prescription, recette
prescription in German is Vorschrift, Verordnung, Rezept
prescription in Hungarian is recept, orvosi recept
prescription in Italian is prescrizione, ricetta
prescription in Norwegian is resept

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