3 uses
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Definition
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
or more specifically:
of a medical doctor: to give medical instructions — such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
- 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.1.1 — Part 1 Chapter 1 (31% in)
- # 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.1.7 — Part 1 Chapter 7 (43% in)
- It was as if every dark mass exercised a suction like the pull of the planets in space, prescribing her orbit.3.5 — Part 3 Chapter 5 (64% in)
There are no more uses of "prescribe" in The Fountainhead.
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