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noun
1.
a set of instructions for making or preparing something, especially a food dish: a recipe for a cake.
2.
a medical prescription.
3.
a method to attain a desired end: a recipe for success.
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Word Origin & History
recipe
1584, "medical prescription," from M.Fr. récipé, from L. recipe "take!," imperative of recipere "to take" (see receive); word written by physicians at the head of prescriptions. Meaning "instructions for preparing food" first recorded 1743. The original sense
EXPANDsurvives only in the pharmacist's abbreviation Rx.
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Medical Dictionary
recipe rec·i·pe (rěs'ə-pē')
n.
The heading that is used to indicate a medical prescription, usually ℞.
A medical prescription.
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