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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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"Prescribed" Quotes from Famous Books

... my misfortune: say if it be one that can be told with less emotion than you have seen in me; and do not trouble yourselves with urging or pressing upon me what reason suggests as likely to serve for my relief, for it will avail me as much as the medicine prescribed by a wise physician avails the sick man who will not take it. I have no wish for health without Luscinda; and since it is her pleasure to be another's, when she is or should be mine, let it be mine to ...

— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... with satisfaction. She had hoped and expected that he would behave naturally, that he would not adopt the desolating attitude of gloom prescribed by convention for sympathisers with the bereaved; and she was not disappointed. He spoke with an easy and cheerful sincerity, and she was exquisitely conscious of the flattery implied in that simple, direct candour which seemed ...

— Leonora • Arnold Bennett

... all the infinite modes of action possible to Him, He has chosen One; that He has, as it were, marked out a path for Himself, and confined the freedom of His will and the manifold omnipotences of His power to prescribed limits, that He has determined the course of His future action. It is meant to teach us, too, the other grand thought that He has declared to us what that course is, not leaving us to learn it piecemeal by slow building up of conclusions about His mind from His actions as they come forth, ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

... uncertainty in the minds of men in relation to the precise light in which the penalties of violated law are to be regarded by civil governments, and the spirit in which they are to be administered—they being apparently, as prescribed and employed by most governments, in some respects, and to some extent, retributive and vindictive, and in other respects ...

— Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young • Jacob Abbott

... that she is in a hurry to make herself worse," said her cousin. "Mr. Carleton, you are a professor of medicine, I believe,—I have an indistinct impression of your having once prescribed a ride on horseback for somebody;—wouldn't you recommend some measure of ...

— Queechy • Susan Warner

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