prescribe

[pre·scribe]

To prescribe is make orders or give directions for something to be done. These days, the word is mainly used by doctors who prescribe medications to take.

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To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.

Verb
issue commands or orders for

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.

v. t.
To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.

v. i.
To give directions; to dictate.

v. i.
To influence by long use

v. i.
To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.

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

Pre*scribe" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prescribed ; p. pr & vb. n. Prescribing.] [L. praescribere, praescriptum; prae before + scriebe to write. See Scribe.] 1. To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.

Prescribe not us our duties.

Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run.

2. (Med.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine. Syn. -- To appoint; order; command; dictate; ordain; institute; establish.

Prescribe

Pre*scribe", v. i. 1. To give directions; to dictate.

A forwardness to prescribe to their opinions.

2. To influence by long use [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. 3. (Med.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever. 4. (Law) 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.

To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.

To give directions; to dictate.

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No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

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