Index of English words, starting with "pr"

(1) - Prescient (a.) Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand.

(1) - Prescind (v. t.) To consider by a separate act of attention or analysis.
(2) - Prescind (v. t.) To cut off; to abstract.

(1) - Prescribe (v. i.) To claim by prescription; to claim a title to a thing on the ground of immemorial use and enjoyment, that is, by a custom having the force of law.
(2) - Prescribe (v. i.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.
(3) - Prescribe (v. i.) To influence by long use
(4) - Prescribe (v. i.) To give directions; to dictate.
(5) - Prescribe (v. t.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.
(6) - Prescribe (v. t.) To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.