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Order :: Order (n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate..

Diet :: Diet (v. i.) To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.

Extra-official :: Extra-official (a.) Not prescribed by official duty.

Sin :: Sin (n.) To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against..

Rule :: Rule (a.) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root..

Swerve :: Swerve (v. i.) To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate..

Determine :: Determine (v. t.) To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.

Church :: Church (v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women..

Physician :: Physician (n.) A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine..

Precinct :: Precinct (n.) A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support..

Rectitude :: Rectitude (n.) Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice..

Refrain :: Refrain (v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.

Rat :: Rat (n.) One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union..

Dictator :: Dictator (n.) One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.

Fate :: Fate (n.) A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.

Education :: Education (n.) The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education..

Examination :: Examination (n.) A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry..

Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. i.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever..

Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. i.) 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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