Both Uses
prescribe
in
David Copperfield
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- 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 *prescription = a recommendation or requirement OR (from a medical doctor) an instruction -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
- I then bound myself once more to the prescribed conditions.†
Chpt 40-42prescribed = recommended or required what should be done OR (of a medical doctor) gave medical instructions -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)