Definition of Prescribe

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Prescribe

To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.

To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.

To give directions; to dictate.

To influence by long use

To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.

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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Prescribe Quotations

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Ayn Rand

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
Robert Kennedy

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
Barney Frank

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
Irvine Welsh

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
Eugene Ionesco

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
Mason Cooley

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
Robert Jackson

It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
Ralph Fiennes

Prescribe Translations

prescribe in German is vorschreiben
prescribe in Italian is decretare
prescribe in Spanish is decretar, prescribir

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