Definition of prescribe

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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..

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Sentence :: Sentence (v. t.) To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
Dose :: Dose (n.) The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time..
Liturgy :: Liturgy (a.) An established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a formulary for public prayer or devotion. In the Roman Catholic Church it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the world, for the celebration of Mass..
Formality :: Formality (n.) The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal..
Swerve :: Swerve (v. i.) To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate..
Prescript :: Prescript (n.) Direction; precept; model prescribed.
Physician :: Physician (n.) A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine..
Positive :: Positive (a.) Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws.
Examination :: Examination (n.) A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry..
Dictator :: Dictator (n.) One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
Ceremonial :: Ceremonial (n.) The order for rites and forms in the Roman Catholic church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on solemn occasions..
Office :: Office (n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.
Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. i.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever..
Education :: Education (n.) The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education..
Diet :: Diet (v. t.) To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of..
Extra-official :: Extra-official (a.) Not prescribed by official duty.
Manual :: Manual (a.) A prescribed exercise in the systematic handing of a weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece (cannon, mortar, etc.)..
Rule :: Rule (a.) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root..
Fashion :: Fashion (v. t.) To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
Transgress :: Transgress (v. t.) Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral..
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