prescribe

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To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient
To specify as a required procedure or ritual
{v} to order, direct medically, set, fix claim by prescription or immemorial use
If a person or set of laws or rules prescribes an action or duty, they state that it must be carried out. article II of the constitution, which prescribes the method of electing a president Alliott told Singleton he was passing the sentence prescribed by law
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 give directions; to dictate
{f} write an order form for medication; order remedies or treatment (about a doctor); recommend, advise
If a doctor prescribes medicine or treatment for you, he or she tells you what medicine or treatment to have. Our doctor diagnosed a throat infection and prescribed antibiotic and junior aspirin She took twice the prescribed dose of sleeping tablets The law allows doctors to prescribe contraception to the under 16s
To influence by long use To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever
issue commands or orders for
To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine
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
prescribe for
determine acquittal
prescriber
A person, such as a physician, who prescribes medication
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decided by a rule
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conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline; "in prescribed order"
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forced, demanded, to lay down rules or laws
prescribed
means prescribed by rules made under this Chapter
prescribed
set down as a rule or guide
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{s} recommended, advised; fixed in advance, preordained, set beforehand
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formally laid down or imposed; "positive laws"
prescribed
means prescribed by regulations under this Ordinance
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The term given to the fact that the information is in a directive issued by the Superintendent of Bankruptcy
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past of prescribe
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fixed or established especially by order or command; "at the time appointed (or the appointed time")
prescriber
One who prescribes
prescriber
{i} one who orders medications and medical treatments
prescribes
third-person singular of prescribe
prescribing
present participle of prescribe
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