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    She first took opiates when they were prescribed for a back spasm.
    prescribed = recommended by a doctor
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    Nature and his relationship to it are a deadly-serious matter, prescribed by convention, mystery, and danger.  (source)
    prescribed = recommended or required
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    He told Mam he was very sorry for her troubles and he'd give her a prescription for something to ease the pain of the days to come.  (source)
    prescription = instructions to take a specific medicine
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    Mama, of course, noticed the tightening in my face. My bad headaches and asthma attacks worried her. "You need rest," she prescribed one afternoon and sent me to bed in Papa's room, the coolest in the house.  (source)
    prescribed = recommended
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    He gave me a prescription.  (source)
    prescription = medical instructions
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    You shall do that which the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.  (source)
    prescribe = require
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    Nardo was busy sorting out prescriptions in a cardboard box.  (source)
    prescriptions = medicines with a doctor's instructions
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    Only if the doctor prescribes it.  (source)
    prescribes = gives medical instructions ordering
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    He was doing nothing less now, he thought, then prescribing corrective lenses for Earthling souls.  (source)
    prescribing = recommending or requiring what should be done  OR  (of a medical doctor) giving medical instructions -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
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    And that which prescribeth the limits thereof, is the Power Soveraign.†  (source)
    prescribeth = recommends
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She prescribeth" in older English, today we say "She prescribes."
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    It strikes me now, though it didn't then, that Mrs. Barbour was well out of line by giving me unprescribed medication on top of the yellow capsules and tiny orange footballs Dave the Shrink had prescribed me.†  (source)
    unprescribed = not recommended by a doctor or expert  OR  voluntary (not required)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unprescribed means not and reverses the meaning of prescribed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The earliest so-called "food expert" was Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, who prescribed all-grape diets and hourly enemas before going on to launch the cereal company.  (source)
    prescribed = recommended
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    I'm curious to know her every thought, her diagnosis, her prognosis, her prescription.  (source)
    prescription = medical recommendation
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