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/prəskrˈaɪb/ /priskrˈaɪb/ Listen

verb

Prescribe v. t. (past & past part. prescribed; pres. part. prescribing)

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."

(Med.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.

Synonyms: To appoint; order; command; dictate; ordain; institute; establish.

Prescribe v. i.

To give directions; to dictate. "A forwardness to prescribe to their opinions."

To influence by long use (Obs.)

(Med.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.

(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.

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"Prescribe" Quotes from Famous Books

... was admitted, in 1791, it is said copper coins were struck with 'E Pluribus Unum.' They were made in England. The act of Congress of 1792, authorizing the establishment of a mint, and the coinage of gold, silver and copper, did not prescribe this motto, ...

— The Youth's Companion - Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 • Various

... life. It is the profession of "the business doctor," and already the idea has been justified. All is not well, perhaps, with some great firm; rivals are getting ahead; profits are declining, and "the business doctor" is called in to investigate and prescribe. He goes from department to department, considering the methods pursued, checking the expenditure on this, on that, on the other. He interviews the partners, the managers, the men down through the various grades; the books are open to him. He presents his diagnosis ...

— The Message and the Man: - Some Essentials of Effective Preaching • J. Dodd Jackson

... leaders. On the side of the Lefts little more could be done than to set up a howl against the "dictatorship of the proletariat" within the party which forced them to taste the medicine they would have preferred to prescribe for the ...

— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto

... of thought with the Absolute is almost as old as philosophy itself. The objections to it have been that no independent existence attaches to these forms; that they prescribe the conditions of thought but are not thought itself, still less being; that they hold good to thought as known to man's reason, but perchance not to thought in other intelligences; and, therefore, that even if through the dialectical ...

— The Religious Sentiment - Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and - Philosophy of Religion • Daniel G. Brinton

... we limited our pharmacopoeia. We prescribe pills enough for the body, while we leave the mind to look after itself. Why should not the spirit also have its draughts and mixtures, properly labeled and dispensed! For example, angling appears to be a strong mental ...

— Noto, An Unexplored Corner of Japan • Percival Lowell

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