All 5 Uses of
prescribe
in
Bleak House
- There is an air of prescription about him which is always agreeable to Sir Leicester; he receives it as a kind of tribute.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- He told us, however, that as he had always been a mere child in point of weights and measures and had never known anything about them (except that they disgusted him), he had never been able to prescribe with the requisite accuracy of detail.†
Chpt 4-6
- The one grand recipe remains for you—the profound philosophical prescription—the be-all and the end-all of your strange existence upon earth.†
Chpt 19-21
- "This is our friend's consulting-room (or would be, if he ever prescribed), his sanctum, his studio," said my guardian to us.†
Chpt 43-45
- The auspicious event is always commemorated according to certain forms settled and prescribed by Mr. Bagnet some years since.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(prescribe) to recommend or require what should be done
or more specifically:
of a medical doctor: to give medical instructions -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics