Prescribe Definition

prĭ-skrīb
prescribed, prescribes, prescribing
verb
prescribed, prescribes, prescribing
To set down or impose rules; dictate.
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To give medical advice or prescriptions.
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To order or advise as a medicine or treatment.
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To set down as a rule or direction; order; ordain; direct.
Webster's New World
To claim a right or title through long use or possession.
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Origin of Prescribe

  • Middle English prescriben from Latin praescrībere prae- pre- scrībere to write skrībh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin praescribere, from prae (“before") and scribere (“to write").

    From Wiktionary

Prescribe Sentence Examples

  • The Mahommedan doctors of India are accustomed to prescribe the seeds.

  • I will prescribe both a topical and and oral medication; use both once a day.

  • Such a mode of procedure may be called anticipatio naturae (for in it reason is allowed to prescribe to things), and is opposed to the true method, the interpretatio naturae, in which reason follows and obeys nature, discovering her secrets by obedience and submission to rule.

  • Subsidiary to metaphysics, as the central inquiry, stand the sciences of logic and ethics, to which may be added aesthetics, constituting three normative sciences - sciences, that is, which do not, primarily, describe facts, but rather prescribe ends or set forth ideals.

  • The rules which he laid down for himself, and which are still extant in his handwriting, prescribe sixteen hours a day of close application, and prove, not only the great mental power, but also the extraordinary physical strength he must have possessed, and for which indeed, during his residence at the university, he had been remarkable.

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