English

Verb

præscribe ‎(third-person singular simple present præscribes, present participle præscribing, simple past and past participle præscribed or præscrib'd)

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 ’ […]