n. The act of prescribing or establishing by rules; that which is prescribed; direction; prescript.n. In medicine, a statement, usually written, of the medicines or remedies to be used by a patient, and the manner of using them.n. In law, a personal use or possession sufficiently long continued to secure to one or more persons a title or right as against others; the effect on rights of persons of the immemorial or long-continued and uninterrupted enjoyment of a thing, as a right of way or of common, by one person or class or succession of persons rather than by another or others: as, to acquire possession of a thing by prescription.n. Hence, more specifically— The acquisition of a right or title by such enjoyment, called sometimes positive or acquisitive prescription.n. The loss of a right or title by suffering another to enjoy it, or by neglecting to assert it: called sometimes negative prescription.