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Usucaption :: Usucaption (n.) 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.

Sentence :: Sentence (v. t.) To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.

Fashion :: Fashion (v. t.) To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.

Formule :: Formule (n.) A set or prescribed model; a formula.

Dietarian :: Dietarian (n.) One who lives in accordance with prescribed rules for diet; a dieter.

Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. t.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine..

Informal :: Informal (a.) Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, without ceremony; as, an informal writting, proceeding, or visit..

Ritual :: Ritual (n.) A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual..

Enactment :: Enactment (n.) That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment..

Regulation :: Regulation (n.) A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school..

Service :: Service (n.) The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subp/na or an attachment..

Processioning :: Processioning (n.) A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession.

Order :: Order (n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate..

Prescription :: Prescription (n.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy..

Prescriber :: Prescriber (n.) One who prescribes.

Academicals :: Academicals (n. pl.) The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

Informality :: Informality (n.) The state of being informal; want of regular, prescribed, or customary form; as, the informality of legal proceedings..

Purgation :: Purgation (n.) The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal..

Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. i.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever..

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