All 6 Uses of
prescribe
in
As I Lay Dying
- There's nothing back there but the prescription case," I said.†
Chpt 45
- MacGowan It happened I am back of the prescription case, pouring up some chocolate sauce, when Jody comes back and says, "Say, Skeet, there's a woman up front that wants to see the doctor and when I said What doctor you want to see, she said she wants to see the doctor that works here and when I said There aint any doctor works here, she just stood there, looking back this way.†
Chpt 55
- I stopped at the glass and smoothed my hair, then I went behind the prescription case, where she was waiting.†
Chpt 55 *
- I go around the prescription case.†
Chpt 55
- I aint doing nothing but filling a prescription.†
Chpt 55
- He may not do nothing about that woman back there, but if he finds you monkeying with that prescription case, he'll kick your stern clean down them cellar stairs.†
Chpt 55
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