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AscriptionAscription As*crip"tion, n. [L. ascriptio, fr. ascribere. See
Ascribe.]
The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also,
that which is ascribed. CircumscriptionCircumscription Cir`cum*scrip"tion, n. [L. circumscriptio. See
Circumscribe.]
1. An inscription written around anything. [R.] --Ashmole.
2. The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude
of a body; outline; periphery. --Ray.
3. The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by
conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit.
The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
--Johnson.
I would not my unhoused, free condition Put into
circumscription and confine. --Shak. Conscription
Conscription Con*scrip"tion, n. [L. conscriptio: cf. F.
conscription.]
1. An enrolling or registering.
The conscription of men of war. --Bp. Burnet.
2. A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval
service; a draft.
Conscription
Conscription Con*scrip"tion, a.
Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration.
DescriptionDescription De*scrip"tion, n. [F. description, L. descriptio.
See Describe.]
1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
2. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or
representation in language; an enumeration of the
essential qualities of a thing or species.
Milton has descriptions of morning. --D. Webster.
3. A class to which a certain representation is applicable;
kind; sort.
A difference . . . between them and another
description of public creditors. --A. Hamilton.
The plates were all of the meanest description.
--Macaulay.
Syn: Account; definition; recital; relation; detail;
narrative; narration; explanation; delineation;
representation; kind; sort. See Definition. Incircumscription
Incircumscription In*cir`cum*scrip"tion, n.
Condition or quality of being incircumscriptible or
limitless. --Jer. Taylor.
InscriptionInscription In*scrip"tion, n. [L. inscriptio, fr. inscribere,
inscriptum, to inscribe: cf. F. inscription. See Inscribe.]
1. The act or process of inscribing.
2. That which is inscribed; something written or engraved;
especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid
substance for preservation or public inspection; as,
inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.
3. (Anat.) A line of division or intersection; as, the
tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle.
4. An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a
book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of
patronage. Organic description of a curveOrganic Or*gan"ic, a. [L. organicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. organique.]
1. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or
to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or
containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and
plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living
organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic
remains. Cf. Inorganic.
2. Produced by the organs; as, organic pleasure. [R.]
3. Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to
a certain destined function or end. [R.]
Those organic arts which enable men to discourse and
write perspicuously. --Milton.
4. Forming a whole composed of organs. Hence: Of or
pertaining to a system of organs; inherent in, or
resulting from, a certain organization; as, an organic
government; his love of truth was not inculcated, but
organic.
5. Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of the large series of
substances which, in nature or origin, are connected with
vital processes, and include many substances of artificial
production which may or may not occur in animals or
plants; -- contrasted with inorganic.
Note: The principles of organic and inorganic chemistry are
identical; but the enormous number and the completeness
of related series of organic compounds, together with
their remarkable facility of exchange and substitution,
offer an illustration of chemical reaction and homology
not to be paralleled in inorganic chemistry.
Organic analysis (Chem.), the analysis of organic
compounds, concerned chiefly with the determination of
carbon as carbon dioxide, hydrogen as water, oxygen as the
difference between the sum of the others and 100 per cent,
and nitrogen as free nitrogen, ammonia, or nitric oxide;
-- formerly called ultimate analysis, in distinction from
proximate analysis.
Organic chemistry. See under Chemistry.
Organic compounds. (Chem.) See Carbon compounds, under
Carbon.
Organic description of a curve (Geom.), the description of
a curve on a plane by means of instruments. --Brande & C.
Organic disease (Med.), a disease attended with morbid
changes in the structure of the organs of the body or in
the composition of its fluids; -- opposed to functional
disease.
Organic electricity. See under Electricity.
Organic law or laws, a law or system of laws, or
declaration of principles fundamental to the existence and
organization of a political or other association; a
constitution.
Organic stricture (Med.), a contraction of one of the
natural passages of the body produced by structural
changes in its walls, as distinguished from a spasmodic
stricture, which is due to muscular contraction. PrescriptionPrescription Pre*scrip"tion, n. [F. prescription, L.
praescriptio, an inscription, preface, precept, demurrer,
prescription (in sense 3), fr. praescribere. See
Prescribe.]
1. The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating;
direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.
2. (Med.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a
disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe;
also, a prescribed remedy.
3. (Law) A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a
thing by virtue immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or
title acquired by possession had during the time and in
the manner fixed by law. --Bacon.
That profound reverence for law and prescription
which has long been characteristic of Englishmen.
--Macaulay.
Note: Prescription differs from custom, which is a local
usage, while prescription is personal, annexed to the
person only. Prescription only extends to incorporeal
rights, such as aright of way, or of common. What the
law gives of common rights is not the subject of
prescription. Blackstone. Cruise. Kent. In Scotch law,
prescription is employed in the sense in which
limitation is used in England and America, namely, to
express that operation of the lapse of time by which
obligations are extinguished or title protected. Sir T.
Craig. Erskine. prescriptionUsucaption U`su*cap"tion (?; 277), n. [L. usucapere,
usucaptum, to acquire by long use; usu (ablative of usus use)
+ capere to take: cf. usucapio usucaption.] (Roman Law)
The acquisition of the title or right to property by the
uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed
by law; -- the same as prescription in common law. Proscription
Proscription Pro*scrip"tion, n. [L. proscriptio: cf. F.
proscription.]
1. The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile;
outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the
public offer of a reward for the head of a political
enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman
citizens fell by proscription.
Every victory by either party had been followed by a
sanguinary proscription. --Macaulay.
2. The state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction;
prohibition. --Macaulay.
Proscriptional
Proscriptional Pro*scrip"tion*al, a.
Proscriptive.
Proscriptionist
Proscriptionist Pro*scrip"tion*ist, n.
One who proscribes.
RescriptionRescription Re*scrip"tion (r?-skr?p"sh?n), n. [L. rescriptio:
cf. F. rescription. See Rescribe.]
A writing back; the answering of a letter. --Loveday. Subscription
Subscription Sub*scrip"tion, n. [L. subscriptio: cf. F.
souscription.]
1. The act of subscribing.
2. That which is subscribed. Specifically:
(a) A paper to which a signature is attached.
(b) The signature attached to a paper.
(c) Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.
(d) Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an
individual subscription to a fund.
3. (Eccl.) The acceptance of articles, or other tests tending
to promote uniformity; esp. (Ch. of Eng.), formal assent
to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer,
required before ordination.
4. Submission; obedience. [Obs.]
You owe me no subscription. --Shak.
5. (Pharm.) That part of a prescription which contains the
direction to the apothecary.
SuperscriptionSuperscription Su`per*scrip"tion, n. [L. superscriptio. See
Superscribe.]
1. The act of superscribing.
2. That which is written or engraved on the surface, outside,
or above something else; specifically, an address on a
letter, envelope, or the like. --Holland.
The superscription of his accusation was written
over, The King of the Jews. --Mark xv. 26.
3. (Pharm.) That part of a prescription which contains the
Latin word recipe (Take) or the sign ?.
Meaning of Scriptio from wikipedia
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rendering support, you may see
question marks, boxes, or
other symbols.
Scriptio continua (Latin for 'continuous script'), also
known as
scriptura continua...
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common in the
writing systems which preceded it, but soon the
practice of
scriptio continua,
continuous writing in
which all
words ran
together without separation...
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would reappear enough so that
scholars can
discern the text (called the
scriptio inferior, the 'underwriting') and
decipher it. In the
later Middle Ages...
- ti, 'whatever') from ότι (óti, 'that').
Ancient Gr****
texts often used
scriptio continua ('continuous writing'),
which means that
ancient authors and scribes...
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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Longest word in
English Scriptio continua "Beschluss im
Schweriner Landtag: Längstes Wort
Deutschlands hat...
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scarcity of
writing material. However, the
faint washed-off
underlying text (
scriptio inferior) is
still barely visible.
Studies using radiocarbon dating indicate...
- Gr****
texts before the
separation of
words by
spaces was common. In the
scriptio continua then used, a
group of
letters might have
separate meanings as...
- left to right. Traditionally, the
script is
written without word
breaks (
scriptio continua) and with
little to no punctuation. A
typical Lontara text may...
- letter. Traditionally, the
script is
written without spaces between words (
scriptio continua) but is inters****d with a
group of
decorative punctuation. Javanese...
- Ktiv
hasar niqqud (Hebrew pronunciation: [ktiv χaˈsaʁ niˈkud]; Hebrew: כתיב חסר ניקוד,
literally "spelling
lacking niqqud"),
colloquially known as ktiv...
