prescribe
/pɹəˈskɹaɪb/ verb B2- To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority). · The doctor prescribed aspirin.
- To specify by writing as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action. · The property meets the criteria prescribed by the regulations.
- To develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription).
- To become invalidated or unenforceable by prescription, to lapse
He/she/it prescribes · Past prescribed · Past participle prescribed · -ing form prescribing
Verb forms
- Base form
- prescribe
- He/she/it
- prescribes
- Past
- prescribed
- Past participle
- prescribed
- -ing form
- prescribing
From the library
D’Avrigny followed the invalid, wrote a prescription, ordered Villefort to take a cabriolet, go in person to a chemist’s to get the prescribed medicine, bring it himself, and wait for him in his daughter’s room.
He knocked at the door and inquired of the inmates how they all did, saying that if they were ill, he would be happy to prescribe for them and cure them.
A Fox asked him, “How can you pretend to prescribe for others, when you are unable to heal your own lame gait and wrinkled skin?”
Watson here would prescribe a sedative.
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