How to Spell prescription

prescription - noun

• The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..

• Also called extinctive prescription or liberative prescription. A time period within which a right must be exercised, otherwise it will be extinguished.

• Also called acquisitive prescription. A time period after which a person who has, in the role of an owner, uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly possessed another's property acquires the property. The described process is known as acquisition by prescription and adverse possession.

• A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.