Definition of prescribe

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

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Hitherto :: Hitherto (adv.) To this place; to a prescribed limit.
Ritual :: Ritual (n.) A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual..
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..
Ceremony :: Ceremony (n.) Behavior regulated by strict etiquette; a formal method of performing acts of civility; forms of civility prescribed by custom or authority.
Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. t.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine..
Dietarian :: Dietarian (n.) One who lives in accordance with prescribed rules for diet; a dieter.
Formality :: Formality (n.) The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal..
Determine :: Determine (v. t.) To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
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. t.) To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of..
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.
Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. i.) To influence by long us.
Enactment :: Enactment (n.) That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment..
Supernumerary :: Supernumerary (a.) Exceeding the number stated or prescribed; as, a supernumerary officer in a regiment..
Ceremonious :: Ceremonious (a.) According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious.
Prescript :: Prescript (a.) Directed; prescribed.
Invariance :: Invariance (n.) The property of remaining invariable under prescribed or implied conditions.
Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. t.) To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct..
Fund :: Fund (n.) The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds..
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