forescript

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noun

A prescription.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounforescript (plural forescripts)

plural forescripts

  1. A prescription.

    On this point all are agreed; on this and, I am sorry to say, on one other: qui medice vivit, misere vivit, "it is a miserable life to live after the physician's forescript."

    1886, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 29, page 822
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    In the postscript or the forescript of Mr. Balfour's address he said, 'Vote for A. J. Balfour and peace with all the world.' (Laughter.) That was not exactly the phrase that he should pick out as fitted for the tombstone of the late Government.

    1904, Concord - Volumes 20-22 - Page 179

    So is the postscript . . . begins from the seventh day with creases on the face of the tendril the waves within the fire within the fire without the waves without after the forescript.

    2006, Obari Gomba, George Bush and Other Observations - Page 16

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