2 uses
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Definition
of a medical doctor: to give medical instructions — such as writing that a patient should have antibiotics
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to recommend — especially with expertise
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to require by rule
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to recommend — especially with expertise
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to require by rule
- 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.Chapters 19-21 (30% in)
- I then bound myself once more to the prescribed conditions.Chapters 40-42 (43% in)
There are no more uses of "prescribe" in David Copperfield.
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