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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Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. i.) To give directions; to dictate.
Sin :: Sin (n.) To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against..
Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. i.) 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..
Disobedient :: Disobedient (a.) Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts..
Dictator :: Dictator (n.) One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
Diet :: Diet (n.) A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
Dietarian :: Dietarian (n.) One who lives in accordance with prescribed rules for diet; a dieter.
Academicals :: Academicals (n. pl.) The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.
Prescription :: Prescription (n.) The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed..
Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual..
Order :: Order (n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate..
Diet :: Diet (v. t.) To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of..
Etiquette :: Etiquette (n.) The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society..
Ceremony :: Ceremony (n.) Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of important matters, as in the performance of religious duties, the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration of notable events; as, the ceremony of crowning a sovereign; the ceremonies observed in consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies..
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..
Banns :: Banns (n. pl.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place..
Formality :: Formality (n.) The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal..
Prescript :: Prescript (n.) Direction; precept; model prescribed.
Office :: Office (n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.
Prescript :: Prescript (a.) Directed; prescribed.
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