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Written with or by the hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume.

Manuscript. [Obs.]

Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.

A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the work has been finished, containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer. [Abbrev. P. S.]

Having a postscript; added in a postscript. [R.] J. Q. Adams.

Directed; prescribed. " A prescript from of words." Jer. Taylor.

, The quality or state of being prescriptible. Story.

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

ng the time and in the manner fixed by law. Bacon. That profound reverence for law and prescription which has long been characteristic of Englishmen. Macaulay.

Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom. The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become prescriptive. J. M. Mason.

By prescription.

A proscription; a prohibition; an interdict. [R.]

a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription. Every victory by either party had been followed by a sanguinary proscription. Macaulay.

Proscriptive.

One who proscribes.

Of or pertaining to proscription; consisting in, or of the nature of, proscription; proscribing. Burke. -- Pro*scrip"tive*ly, adv.

d by particular persons on some difficult question; hence, an edict or decree. In their rescripts and other ordinances, the Roman emperors spoke in the plural number. Hare.

A writing back; the answering of a letter. Loveday.

Pertaining to, or answering the purpose of, a rescript; hence, deciding; settling; determining.

By rescript. Burke.