Both Uses of
prescribe
in
David Copperfield
- I am of this opinion, because, while I was reading the newspaper, I observed him behind a low wooden partition, which was his private apartment, very busy pouring out of a number of those vessels into one, like a chemist and druggist making up a prescription.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- I then bound myself once more to the prescribed conditions.†
Chpt 40-42
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