Definition of prescribe

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Prescribe (v. t.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine..

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Academicals :: Academicals (n. pl.) The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.
Formule :: Formule (n.) A set or prescribed model; a formula.
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..
Exercise :: Exercise (n.) That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition..
Formality :: Formality (n.) The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal..
Evolution :: Evolution (n.) A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver..
Ceremony :: Ceremony (n.) Behavior regulated by strict etiquette; a formal method of performing acts of civility; forms of civility prescribed by custom or authority.
Refrain :: Refrain (v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual..
Invariance :: Invariance (n.) The property of remaining invariable under prescribed or implied conditions.
Inordinate :: Inordinate (a.) Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of the world..
Extra-official :: Extra-official (a.) Not prescribed by official duty.
Church :: Church (v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women..
Prescribed :: Prescribed (imp. & p. p.) of Prescrib.
Prescription :: Prescription (n.) The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed..
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..
Amercement :: Amercement (n.) The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.].
Graduate :: Graduate (n.) One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.
Prescript :: Prescript (a.) Directed; prescribed.
Hitherto :: Hitherto (adv.) To this place; to a prescribed limit.
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