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|lshtext=<b>praescriptĭo</b>: ōnis, f. [[praescribo]].<br /><b>I</b> A [[writing]] [[before]] or in [[front]], a prefixing in [[writing]]; [[hence]], meton., a [[title]], [[inscription]], [[preface]], [[introduction]], [[commencement]]: [[praescriptio]] legis, Cic. Agr. 2, 9, 22: tribuniciae potestatis, Tac. A. 1, 7.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[pretext]], [[excuse]], [[pretence]]: ut honestā praescriptione rem turpissimam tegerent, Caes. B. C. 3, 32.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A [[precept]], [[order]], [[rule]], [[law]]: [[dummodo]] [[illa]] [[praescriptio]] moderatioque teneatur, Cic. Cael. 18, 42: hanc normam, hanc regulam, hanc praescriptionem esse naturae, a quā, etc., id. Ac. 2, 46, 140: rationis, id. Tusc. 4, 9, 22: in hac praescriptione [[semi]]-horae, id. Rab. Perd. 2, 6: [[sine]] praescriptione generis aut numeri, [[without]] [[previous]] [[limitation]], Tac. A. 6, 15.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> In [[law]], an [[exception]], [[objection]], [[demurrer]]: aut [[intentio]], aut [[praescriptio]] habet controversiam, Quint. 7, 5, 2: praescriptionem alicui opponere, Dig. 44, tit. 1, 11.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Esp., a [[limitation]] of the [[subject]]-[[matter]] in a [[suit]], by a form of words: praescriptiones [[autem]] appellatas ab eo, [[quod]] [[ante]] formulas praescribuntur, Gai. Inst. 4, 132; cf. id. ib. 4, 130 sqq.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> Transf., a philosophical [[objection]], a [[subtlety]], [[sophism]]: exceptiones et praescriptiones philosophorum, Sen. Ep. 48, 12.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>E</b> Limitation as to [[time]], [[prescription]], Dig. 18, 1, 76.

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