intransitive verb. To set down as a rule, law, or direction.

intransitive verb. To order the use of (a medicine or other treatment).

intransitive verb. To establish rules, laws, or directions.

intransitive verb. To order a medicine or other treatment.

To inscribe beforehand or in front.

To lay down beforehand, in writing or otherwise, as a rule of action; ordain; appoint; define authoritatively.

Specifically, to advise, appoint, or designate as a remedy for disease.

In law, to render invalid through lapse of time or negative prescription.

Synonyms To order, command, dictate, institute, establish.

To set rules; lay down the law; dictate.

To give medical directions; designate the remedies to be used: as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.

In law: To claim by prescription; claim a title to a thing by immemorial use and enjoyment: with for: as, to prescribe for a right of way, of common, or the like

To become extinguished or of no validity through lapse of time, as a right, debt, obligation, and the like. See prescription

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

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

intransitive verb. To give directions; to dictate.

intransitive verb. To influence by long use.

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

intransitive verb. 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.

verb. To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient.

verb. To specify as a required procedure or ritual.

verb. issue commands or orders for

"Forbidding the critic to prescribe is itself a prescription."

proscribe  

prescription  prescriptive  

bring down  impose  inflict  visit  

mandate  

Scribe  ascribe  bribe  circumscribe  describe  

administer  advise  advocate  apply  appoint  

prescribed  prescribes  prescribing