Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IM-PRE-SCRIP-TI-BIL'I-TY
IM-PREP-A-RA'TIONIM-PRE-SCRIP'TI-BLE
IM-PRE-SCRIP-TI-BIL'I-TY, n. [Fr. imprescriptibilité, from imprescriptible.]
The state of being independent of prescription; the state which renders a thing not liable to be lost or impaired by the prescription of another, or by one's own non-user. Vattel, Trans.
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