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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

... there did their crafty malice reach him; for while at Hamburg, being visited with sore sickness, it is certain that Dr. Bates, one of king Charles's physicians, intending to kill him (contrary to his faith and office), prescribed poison to him instead of physic, and then caused draw from him sixty ounces of blood, whereby (though the Lord wonderfully preserved his life) he was brought near the gates of death, and so far lost his memory, that he could not remember what he had said or done a quarter of an hour ...

— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie

... acted without foresight, and yet no wisdom could have prescribed more salutary measures. The panther was slain, not from a view to the relief of my hunger, but from the self-preserving and involuntary impulse. Had I foreknown the pangs to which my ravenous and bloody meal would give ...

— Edgar Huntley • Charles Brockden Brown

... wife of the vicar of the parish Mrs. Wrottesley wore brown merino and a mantle, but these hid a great soul securely held in check and narrowed down by a strict adherence to the small conventions and paralysing rules which society seems to have prescribed for vicars and their wives in the rural parishes of England. She prayed every morning of her life for more faith, and meant by that a narrower creed. Mrs. Wrottesley was an inarticulate woman, and had gained for herself the character of ...

— Peter and Jane - or The Missing Heir • S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan

... concentrating the chemical rays, would impart to the body their life-giving power. He himself was beyond their help. Daily he felt life slipping from him, but no word of complaint passed his lips. He prescribed for himself a treatment that, if anything, was worse than the disease. Only a man of iron will could ...

— Hero Tales of the Far North • Jacob A. Riis

... had been given why Sherman should not have sent a cavalry raid into Georgia, as Grant suggested, to destroy everything there, and thus negative Mr. Davis's promise of protection, while he (Sherman) pursued relentlessly the strictly military plan Grant had prescribed for him to break up Hood's army or capture it, which Sherman had yet ...

— Forty-Six Years in the Army • John M. Schofield

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