Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Recipe

(3 syl.), Receipt. Recipe is Latin for take, and contracted into R is used in doctor's prescriptions. The dash through the R is an abbreviated form of, the symbol of Jupiter, and R means Recipe, deo volente.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Reck his own Rede
Receipt
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