a. [ L. adscriptus, p. p. of adscribere to enroll. See Ascribe. ] Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adscriptivus. See Adscript. ] Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Adscript. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ascriptio, fr. ascribere. See Ascribe. ] The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ascriptitius, fr. ascribere. ] 1. Ascribed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Added; additional. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An ascriptitious and supernumerary God. Farindon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. circumscriptio. See Circumscribe. ] 1. An inscription written around anything. [ R. ] Ashmole. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit. [ 1913 Webster ]

The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would not my unhoused, free condition
Put into circumscription and confine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limits or form of. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a limited manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a literal, limited, or narrow manner. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To enroll, by compulsion, for military service. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conscriptus, p. p. of conscribere to write together, to enroll; con- + scribere to write. See Scribe. ] Enrolled; written; registered. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conscript fathers (Rom. Antiq.), the senators of ancient Rome. When certain new senators were first enrolled with the “fathers” the body was called Patres et Conscripti; afterward all were called Patres conscripti. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conscriptio: cf. F. conscription. ] 1. An enrolling or registering. [ 1913 Webster ]

The conscription of men of war. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. description, L. descriptio. See Describe. ] 1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. [ 1913 Webster ]

Milton has descriptions of morning. D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort. [ 1913 Webster ]

A difference . . . between them and another description of public creditors. A. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The plates were all of the meanest description. Macaulay.

Syn. -- Account; definition; recital; relation; detail; narrative; narration; explanation; delineation; representation; kind; sort. See Definition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. descriptivus: cf. F. descriptif. ] Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age. [ 1913 Webster ]

Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures. --
Descriptive geometry, that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. )

-- De*scrip"tive*ly, adv. -- De*scrip"tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. ] A writing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exscriptus, p. p. of exscribere. ] A copy; a transcript. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ex-+scriptural. ] Not in accordance with the doctrines of Scripture; unscriptural. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. imprescriptibilité. ] The quality of being imprescriptible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. im- not + prescriptible: cf. F. imprescriptible. ] 1. Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription; -- of rights. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ) [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not derived from, or dependent on, external authority; self-evidencing; obvious. [ 1913 Webster ]

The imprescriptible laws of the pure reason. Colerridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an imprescriptible manner; obviously. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + circumscriptible: cf. LL. incircumscriptibilis. ] Incapable of being circumscribed or limited. Cranmer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Condition or quality of being incircumscriptible or limitless. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not descriptive. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being inscribed; inscribable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inscriptio, fr. inscribere, inscriptum, to inscribe: cf. F. inscription. See Inscribe. ] 1. The act or process of inscribing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bearing inscription; of the character or nature of an inscription. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. manu scriptus. See Manual, and Scribe. ] Written with or by the hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. manuscriptum, lit., something written with the hand. See Manuscript, a. ] 1. An original literary or musical composition written by the author, formerly with the hand, now usually by typewriter or word processor. It is contrasted with a printed copy. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. Writing, as opposed to print; as, the book exists only in manuscript. Craik. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word is often abbreviated to MS., plural MSS. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Manuscript. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. non- + L. descriptus described. ] 1. Not hitherto described; hence, of no recognizable type or class; odd; abnormal; unclassifiable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Dull or uninteresting; undistinguished. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. able to be sold legally without a doctor's prescription; over-the-counter; -- of medicinal drugs; as, Aspirin is a nonprescription antiinflammatory drug. Opposite of prescription. [ prenominal ]
Syn. -- non-prescription(prenominal), over-the-counter(prenominal), OTC. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. postscriptus, (assumed) p. p. of postscribere to write after; post after + scribere to write: cf. F. postscriptum. See Post-, and Scribe. ] 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a postscript; added in a postscript. [ R. ] J. Q. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praescriptus, p. p. of praescribere: cf. F. prescrit. See Prescribe. ] Directed; prescribed. “ A prescript from of words.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praescriptum: cf. OF. prescript. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Direction; precept; model prescribed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A medical prescription. [ Obs. ] Bp. Fell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being prescriptible. Story. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. prescriptible. ] Depending on, or derived from, prescription; proper to be prescribed. Grafton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. prescription, L. praescriptio, an inscription, preface, precept, demurrer, prescription (in sense 3), fr. praescribere. See Prescribe. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy. Hence: a written order from a physician for a medication, which allows a patient to legally obtain medication which is required by law to be dispensed only on authorization from a physician or other qualified medical practitioner. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. (Law) A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue of immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

That profound reverence for law and prescription which has long been characteristic of Englishmen. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Prescription differs from custom, which is a local usage, while prescription is personal, annexed to the person only. Prescription only extends to incorporeal rights, such as a right of way, or of common. What the law gives of common rights is not the subject of prescription. Blackstone. Cruise. Kent. In Scotch law, prescription is employed in the sense in which limitation is used in England and America, namely, to express that operation of the lapse of time by which obligations are extinguished or title protected. Sir T. Craig. Erskine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praescriptivus of a demurrer or legal exception. ] 1. (Law) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become prescriptive. J. M. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the doctrine that acceptable grammatical rules should be prescribed by authority, rather than be determined by common usage. [ PJC ]

adv. By prescription. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine that acceptable grammatical rules should be prescribed by authority, rather than be determined by common usage. [ PJC ]

n. A person who believes that acceptable practices should be prescribed by an authority rather than be determined by the usage of the general public; especially, a supporter of prescriptive{ 2 } rules of grammar; -- also used attributively, as prescriptivist grammar. [ PJC ]

n. [ See Proscribe. ] 1. A proscription; a prohibition; an interdict. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is proscribed. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. proscriptio: cf. F. proscription. ] 1. The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every victory by either party had been followed by a sanguinary proscription. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction; prohibition. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]