Prescribe

Word PRESCRIBE
Character 9
Hyphenation pre scribe
Pronunciations /pɹɪˈskɹaɪb/

Definitions and meanings of "Prescribe"

What do we mean by prescribe?

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. intransitive verb

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

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. intransitive 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. transitive verb

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

To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).

To specify by writing as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.

Orgy, fuck fest Urban Dictionary

Pills prescribed to you whether you want them or not. they are mailed directly to you. still hurtin still in pain. in the end it was all psych help Urban Dictionary

Pills prescribed to you whether you want them or not. they are mailed directly to you. still hurtin still in pain. in the end it was all psych help Urban Dictionary

When,once a person succumbs to a potentially pandemic/epidemic causing disease, his body is not returned to his relatives for burial but is instead incinerated (usually by government executive order) for obvious sanitary/hygiene reasons in order to prevent further infection and try and stop the rampant pandemic/epidemic from spreading. Urban Dictionary

To have multiple people gathering for secual encounters; orgy, fucking everyone. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Prescribe

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The word "prescribe" in example sentences

Forbidding the critic to prescribe is itself a prescription. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

In practice, few care labels prescribe vigorous laundering for table linens. ❋ CHERYL MENDELSON (2005)

Okada bowed low -- as low as the rules of Japanese etiquette prescribe, which is to say that he bent himself almost double. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Before its adoption, the Constitution of the United States did not in terms prescribe who should be citizens of the United States or of the several States, yet there were necessarily such citizens without such provision. ❋ Matilda Joslyn Gage (1862)

For example, if you have allergies, your doctor might "prescribe" over-the-counter Claritin. ❋ Ashlea Ebeling (2010)

Indeed, seven years after N.I.H. announced its results, the diabetes education program that powerfully interrupted the usual progression from prediabetes to diabetes is still so unavailable, despite being cheaper than medication, that almost no doctor in the United States --- a nation with 54 million prediabetics --- could "prescribe" it for a prediabetic patient. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My broader point though, which isn't really invalidated by the change from "prescribe" to "promote" is that the "reasonableness" bar is not applied in a "reasonable man" fashion, but in a fairly arbitrary way. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

It is inconceivable to me that an actual medical doctor would "prescribe" an abortion as a means of treating depression. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

The fear of the Lord maketh a merry heart, and giveth gladness, and joy, and long life: and all such as prescribe physic, to begin in nomine Dei, as [2821] Mesue did, to imitate Laelius a ❋ Unknown (2007)

But not everyone agrees it would be wise to "prescribe" food or drinks to patients as a drug booster. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The New York Times has an article about the increasing willingness of young people to 'prescribe' themselves, and their friends, psychiatric drugs: ❋ Unknown (2005)

Im [gunna] [fuck everyone] at the [prescribe fest] tonight! ❋ Larrisa24 (2014)

i don’t need to be prescribed [i’ve] always been [feelin] this way [since day] one ❋ BumStatusYo (2018)

i [don’t] [need] them #[prescribed] ❋ BumStatusYo (2018)

all the religious and superstitious [spiel] aside, and despite the fact that sanitation-hygiene prescribed corpse incineration was inefficiently used during [The Black Death] epidemic of 1347-1351 in Europe, IMHO sanitation-hygiene prescribed corpse incineration should still be considered as a [viable option] in treating the current Ebola outbreak in Western Africa ❋ Sexydimma (2014)

[prescribe] fests are [the shit] ❋ Larrisa24 (2014)

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