All 4 Uses of
prescribe
in
A Streetcar Named Desire
- Chance, I think I ought to remind you that once long ago the father of this girl wrote out a prescription for you, a sort of medical prescription, which is castration.†
Scene 1.1prescription = a recommendation or requirement OR (from a medical doctor) an instruction -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
- Chance, I think I ought to remind you that once long ago the father of this girl wrote out a prescription for you, a sort of medical prescription, which is castration.†
Scene 1.1
- I can't afford to, and neither can your father.... [Scudder goes to gallery writing prescription.†
Scene 2.1
- prescription for that cough
Scene 2.1 *prescription = medical instructions written by a doctor
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