These are the meanings of the letters REPROBACIES when you unscramble them.
- Acrospire (n.)
The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.
- Acrospire (v. i.)
To put forth the first sprout.
- 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.
- Prescribe (v. i.)
To give directions; to dictate.
- Prescribe (v. i.)
To influence by long use
- Prescribe (v. i.)
To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.
- Prescribe (v. t.)
To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.
- 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.
- Proscribe (v. t.)
To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters.
- Proscribe (v. t.)
To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents.