prescript

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So you’ve got prescriptions for the future, but how do we even those prescript prescriptions are any good if you missed it in the past?

From Time • Nov. 14, 2015

In fact, it rather closely parallels the old imperial prescript on education.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was therefore of necessitie that a more curious and particular description should bee, made of euery manner of speech, either transgressing or agreeing with their said generall prescript.

From The Arte of English Poesie by Puttenham, George

A few days later, when Mendoza and Miguel were alone in the library, the prescript told his friend a secret that filled him with astonishment.

From Maximina by Palacio Valdés, Armando

Precept -- N. precept, direction, instruction, charge; prescript, prescription; recipe, receipt; golden rule; maxim &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark