• Præscribe

    Full definition of præscribe

    Verb

    1. Archaic spelling of prescribe
      • 1572–1637: Ben Jonson; his text quoted and discussed in:
      • 1954: Charles Harold Herford ed., Percy Simpson ed., Evelyn Mary Spearing Simpson ed., Ben Jonson, page 273 (Clarendon Press)The classical spellings not preserved in the printed text are — ‘ æquall ’ (dedication, l. 10 and l. 616), ‘ æqually ’ (l. 576), ‘ æquality ’ (l. 578), ‘ præscrib’d ’ (l. 38), ‘ fruicts ’ (l. 144) and ‘ fruictfully ’ …
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