All 5 Uses
prescribe
in
Long Day's Journey into Night
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- Leave it to you to have some of the stuff hidden, and prescriptions for more!†
Act 2prescriptions = recommendations or requirements OR (from a medical doctor) instructions -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
- CATHLEEN The way the man in the drugstore acted when I took in the prescription for you.†
Act 3 *prescription = a recommendation or requirement OR (from a medical doctor) an instruction -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
- What prescription?†
Act 3
- Not that it matters, as long as he filled the prescription.†
Act 3
- Besides, I wanted to treat Cathleen because I had her drive uptown with me, and sent her to get my prescription filled.†
Act 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)