Both Uses of
prescribe
in
Moby Dick
- They it was who by universal prescription commanded three of the Pequod's boats as headsmen.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course—its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads; and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events.†
Chpt 46-48
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