All 3 Uses of
prescribe
in
Slaughterhouse-Five
- He was doing nothing less now, he thought, then prescribing corrective lenses for Earthling souls.
Chpt 2 *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
- An optometer is an instrument for measuring refractive errors in eyes-in order that corrective lenses may be prescribed.†
Chpt 3
- He was examining the eyes of a young male Mongolian idiot in order to prescribe corrective lenses.†
Chpt 9
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