Word Meanings - PRESCRIPTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.

• DIRECTACTING
  Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts. Direct-acting steam engine, one in which motion is transmitted to the crank without the intervention of a beam or lever; -- also called direct-action steam engin
• Direct-acting
  Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.
• Preceptial
  Preceptive.
• DIRECTACTION
  See Syndicalism, below.
• Preception
  A precept.
• DIRECTCOUPLED
  Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo. Direct-coupled antenna (Wireless Teleg.), an antenna connected electrically with one point of a closed oscillation circuit in syntony with it and earthed.
• Preceptive
  Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.
• DIRECTNOMINATION
  The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates with
• Directive
  Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.
• Preceptor
  One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor.
• DIRECTOIRESTYLE
  A style of dress prevalent at the time of the French Directory, characterized by great extravagance of design and imitating the Greek and Roman costumes.

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