HOW TO PRONOUNCE
prescribe
/pɹəˈskɹaɪb/
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What does prescribe mean?
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.
- To develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription).
More meanings (1)
verb
- To become invalidated or unenforceable by prescription, to lapse
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IPA pronunciation
/pɹəˈskɹaɪb/
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No new taxes shall be imposed or existing ones modified except by law or under such conditions as law may prescribe.
His design was to push on to Dresden, and by the conquest of the whole country, to prescribe laws to the Elector.
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In prescribing, then, the oath to obey the ordinance, no more was done than to prescribe an oath to obey the Constitution.
A dust-laden atmosphere is a germ-laden atmosphere, therefore physicians prescribe for tubercular convalescents conditions in which the air is 90% free from dust.