All 6 Uses
prescribe
in
The Impossible Knife of Memory
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- One of my mom's prescriptions.†
p. 129.8 *prescriptions = recommendations or requirements OR (from a medical doctor) instructions -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
- If they looked at their parents, at their crankiness and their therapy and their prescriptions and their ragged collections of kids, step-kids, half-kids, quarter-kids, and the habits that had started in secret but now owned them, body and soul, then they might curse that spell.†
p. 193.6
- He prescribed a new pill (the seventh new pill?†
p. 286.3prescribed = recommended or required what should be done OR (of a medical doctor) gave medical instructions -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
- Dad never filled the prescription.†
p. 286.5prescription = a recommendation or requirement OR (from a medical doctor) an instruction -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
- As the coffee was brewing, he lined up his new prescription bottles on the windowsill above the kitchen sink.†
p. 359.7
- Another cop, a woman, was copying down the information from Dad's prescription bottles.†
p. 373.6
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)