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Prescribe

//pɹɪˈskɹaɪb// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).

    "The doctor prescribed aspirin."

  2. 2
    issue commands or orders for wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    (medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription wordnet
  5. 5
    To develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription).

    "Most probable that one presentation and 40 years possession thereafter, is sufficient to prescribe a right of patronage."

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  1. 6
    recommend as beneficial wordnet
  2. 7
    To become invalidated or unenforceable by prescription, to lapse

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praescrībere, from prae- (“before, in front”) and scrībere (“to write”).

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