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ted 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.

The quality of being imprescriptible.

of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription. The right of navigation, fishing, and others that may be exercised on the sea, belonging to the right of mere ability, are imprescriptible. Vattel (Trans. )

In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.

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.

ring 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.

An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.

for more than twenty years. In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive right.

Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. Wharton. Coke…

To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift.

d to a man's person, being granted to him and his heirs by deed; or it may be claimed by prescriptive right, as by a parson of a church or other corporation sole. Blackstone. -- Common of estovers, the right of taking wood from another's estate. -- Common of pasture, the right of feeding beasts on the land of another…

dered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.

vered with authority; an order; a command; an authoritative rule, principle, or maxim; a prescription; as, listen to the dictates of your conscience; the dictates of the gospel. I credit what the Grecian dictates say. Prior.