scrib-, script-, -scribe, -scription, -scriptive +
(Latin: write, record)
Writing has not always been available to the "common person". It was restricted only to the few who were educated especially for that purpose either as scribes or monks who dedicated their lives to this vocation. You can learn more about the ancient Egyptian scribes in this unit.
post scriptum; PS, P.S.
A post script; written afterward.
Anything that is written [added] after the main message of a letter; an afterthought.
prescribe
1. To direct a patient to follow a particular course of treatment; specifically, to use a particular drug at set times and in specified dosages.
2. To write first or beforehand; also, to write with foreknowledge; to predict in writing; to describe beforehand.
3. To write or lay down as a rule or direction to be followed; to appoint, ordain, direct, enjoin.
prescribed
Laid down, appointed, or fixed beforehand; ordained, appointed, set, fixed, defined.
prescriber
1. Someone who indicates something as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to specify with authority.
2: To designate, or to order, the use of as a remedy.
prescript
1. A rule, or regulation, that has been laid down; usually, in writing.
2. Something prescribed; especially, a rule, or regulation, of conduct.
prescription
1. A written order issued by a physician or other qualified practitioner that authorizes a pharmacist to supply a particular medication for a particular patient, with instructions on its use.
2. A written order from an optometrist or ophthalmologist for glasses or contact lenses of a particular type and strength to correct the eyesight of a particular person.
3. A proven formula for causing something else to happen.
4. Laying down of laws, rules, and regulations.
prescriptive
1. Establishing or adhering to rules and regulations.
2. Based on legal prescription.
3. Based on, or authorized by, long-standing custom.
prescriptively
1. Sanctioned or authorized by long-standing custom or usage.
2. Relating to the making or giving of injunctions, directions, laws, or rules.
proscribable
1. That which is able to be denounced or condemned as being dangerous or harmful; prohibitive.
2. Anything that can be put outside the protection of the law; outlawed.
proscribe
1. To write up or publish the name of (a person) as condemned to death and confiscation of property.
2. To put out of the protection of the law, to outlaw; to banish, to exile.
3. To reject, to condemn, to denounce (something) as useless or dangerous; to prohibit, to interdict; to proclaim (a district or practice).
proscriber
1. Someone who dooms something to destruction.
2. Anyone who denounces a person, or situation, as dangerous, or as utterly unworthy of reception.
3. A person who condemns or forbids something, or someone, as being harmful or unlawful.
proscription
1. An act of condemning or forbidding something.
2. The condition of having been denounced or exiled.
Qui scribit bis legit.
He who writes reads twice.
A suggestion that it is a good idea to write out something that one wishes to learn thoroughly.
Quotes: Descriptions and Similes Vividly Expressed
rescribing
Writing again.
There is a special presentation about the history of the anient scribes at this "Professional-Egyptian scribe story", Part 1.
Related "writing" units:
glypto-;
gram-;
graph-.
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