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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.]

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.

Falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end. -- n.

Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.

Divided into four parts.

In four parts.

A division or distribution by four, or into four parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.

Having four wings; -- said of insects.

Having four leaves; quadrifoliate.

Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season.

Rareripe, or early ripe. -- n.

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.