The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prescribe \Pre*scribe"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prescribed; p. pr & vb. n. Prescribing.] [L. praescribere, praescriptum; prae before + scriebe to write. See Scribe.]
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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.
Prescribe not us our duties.
--Shak.Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run.
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(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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of prescribe English)
Usage examples of "prescribing".
Obviously we don’t look at individual prescribing habits unless we are given information by the board of medical examiners or the medical society’s ethics committee that suggests there is an irregularity.
Except, of course, if a physician’s prescribing habits change markedly over a short period of time.
Baxter had been prescribing before he died, Thomas could obtain plenty of drugs.
I know you do not mean to imply irresponsible prescribing, so I shall not read into your remarks as much as I might.
Obviously the doctors haven’t read them because they keep prescribing the stuff like crazy.
Vandermer’s prescribing habits had changed, but the screen remained blank save for the stark message: “Transferred to Julian Clinic.
Apparently, MTIC wanted to do more than simply brainwash the doctors into prescribing Arolen products.
By the time they get around to prescribing, and then getting the medication to you, Christ, you're an urn of ashes.
In prescribing meats and drinks would he wish to go beyond another physician or beyond the practice of medicine?
For years, we've heard Hillary, Gephardt, Daschle, Lieberman, and Gore prescribing free drugs.
They are intoxicated with the idea of prescribing universal healthcare, their ultimate goal, for all Americans.
Here the treatment, and certainly the doctors prescribing it, were likely to cause him more mental anguish than the disease.