forescript

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ script.

Noun

forescript (plural forescripts)

1. A prescription.
   • 1886, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 29, page 822:

     On this point all are agreed; on this and, I am sorry to say, on one other: qui medice vivit, misere vivit, "it is a miserable life to live after the physician's forescript."

   • 1904, Concord - Volumes 20-22 - Page 179:

     In the postscript or the forescript of Mr. Balfour's address he said, 'Vote for A. J. Balfour and peace with all the world.' (Laughter.) That was not exactly the phrase that he should pick out as fitted for the tombstone of the late Government.

   • 2006, Obari Gomba, George Bush and Other Observations - Page 16:

     So is the postscript . . . begins from the seventh day with creases on the face of the tendril the waves within the fire within the fire without the waves without after the forescript.