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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. issue commands or orders for [syn: order , dictate ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prescribe \Pre*scribe"\, v. i. To give directions; to dictate. A forwardness to prescribe to their opinions. --Locke. To influence by long use [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. (Med.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient. 2 To specify as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a doctor prescribes pills (= tells someone to take them ) ▪ Her doctor just prescribed more pills and told her to take it easy. a doctor prescribes sth (= writes an order for medicine for someone ) ▪ My doctor prescribed ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to write down as a direction," mid-15c., from Latin praescribere "write beforehand" (see prescription ). Related: Prescribed ; prescribing . Medical sense is from 1580s, probably a back formation from prescription .

Usage examples of prescribe.

You replied, advising me, and prescribing a course of treatment, which you sent to me.

Beaufort, Port Royal, and New Orleans shall so far cease and determine, from and after the first day of June next, that commercial intercourse with those ports, except as to persons, things, and information contraband of war, may from that time be carried on, subject to the laws of the United States, and to the limitations and in pursuance of the regulations which are prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in his order of this date, which is appended to this proclamation.

Alexandria shall so far cease and determine, from and after this date, that commercial intercourse with said port, except as to persons, things, and information contraband of war, may from this date be carried on, subject to the laws of the United States, and to the limitations and in pursuance of the regulations which are prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in his order which is appended to my proclamation of the 12th of May, 1862.

It was fitting that Christ should not only fulfil what was prescribed by the Old Law, but also begin what appertained to the New Law.

By an act passed in 1865 Congress had prescribed that before any person should be permitted to practice in a federal court he must take oath asserting that he had never voluntarily borne arms against the United States, had never given aid or comfort to enemies of the United States, and so on.

It is not to be denied that they had the inherent right, inside of Constitutional limitations, to repeal the laws of their States, and even to change the Constitution itself, if they should do it by prescribed methods and by honest majorities, and should not, in the process, disturb the fundamental conditions upon which the General Government had assented to their re-admission to the right of representation in Congress.

If this is so do not regret them, for they have enabled you to learn the first of your lessons: no bedin may speak in the presence of hizahh, save at their command, and then only in the prescribed manner.

Upon further analysis, a weekly dose of specified minerals matching precisely those found in the benthos were prescribed, and sure enough the spells soon went away.

To this end the psychiatrist prescribed Benzedrine tablets from the Kremlin pharmacy and within two weeks the General Secretary was a pop-eyed wreck.

He would continue treating me with bleomycin, he said, but his regimen would be much more caustic than what Youman had prescribed.

David, and the goodwife has had a flux in the legs this twelvemonth back, but the Lord has showed me singular favour, and my damps are lightened since a leech in Edinburgh prescribed a hyperion of bourtree and rue.

So now she used all the exercises she had been taught, that first day and night, and then the various restimulating exotica prescribed for waning powers, and it was more than seven days in all before she awoke and found her husband gone from the marital couch.

Livia replied that she could not have expressed an opinion had not the Goddess fortunately made a pronouncement on this point in the same dream: that the Mother Confessor would be empowered to prescribe expiatory penances and that the penances should be a matter of holy confidence between the criminal and the Mother Confessor.

Edinburgh to improve, enlarge, and adorn the avenues and streets of that city, according to a concerted plan, to be executed by voluntary subscription: a third, allowing the exportation of wool and woollen yarn from Ireland into any port in Great Britain: and a fourth, prescribing the breadth of the wheels belonging to heavy carriages, that the high roads of the kingdom might be the better preserved.

It can, therefore, no longer be doubted that this wonderful compound is far superior as a remedy for Consumption to cod liver oil, compound Hypophosphites, and the many other agents so highly extolled, and so generally prescribed for this fatal malady by even the more progressive and advanced of the medical profession of our day.