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prescribe

/pɹəˈskɹaɪb/ verbe B2

En français : prescrire, indiquer, ordonner

  1. To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority). · The doctor prescribed aspirin.
  2. 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.
  3. To develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription).
  4. To become invalidated or unenforceable by prescription, to lapse

He/she/it prescribes · Prétérit prescribed · Participe passé prescribed · Forme en -ing prescribing

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Dans la bibliothèque

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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 944 · C1
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.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 22 · B2
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?”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 83 · B2
Watson here would prescribe a sedative.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 35 · C1

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