Both Uses of
prescribe
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- 'I can make nothing of it,' said he, but he prescribed a mineral water which is kept at a chemist's here.†
Chpt 4 *
- The mineral water costs thirty copecks, and she'd need to drink forty bottles perhaps; so I took the prescription and laid it on the shelf under the ikons, and there it lies.†
Chpt 4
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