Both Uses
prescribe
in
Why I Live at the P.O.
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- What he'd really done, he'd drunk another bottle of that prescription.†
*prescription = a recommendation or requirement OR (from a medical doctor) an instruction -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
- But this would be the day he was drinking that prescription, the Fourth of July.†
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)