All 3 Uses of
prescribe
in
The Fountainhead
- It was not as if the draftsman had sat over them, pondering laboriously, piecing together doors, windows and columns, as his whim dictated and as the books prescribed.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- # Roark stood at a table in the drafting room of Francon & Heyer, a pencil in his hand, a strand of orange hair hanging down over his face, the prescribed pearl-gray smock like a prison uniform on his body.†
Chpt 1.7
- It was as if every dark mass exercised a suction like the pull of the planets in space, prescribing her orbit.†
Chpt 3.5
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