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Prescribe   /prəskrˈaɪb/  /priskrˈaɪb/   Listen
Prescribe

verb
(past & past part. prescribed; pres. part. prescribing)
1.
Issue commands or orders for.  Synonyms: dictate, order.





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"Prescribe" Quotes from Famous Books



... after itself," said Father Payne. "There's no difficulty about that! You asked me whom it was worth while taking some trouble to see, and I prescribe a very occasional great man, and a good many well-bred, cultivated, experienced, civil men and women. It isn't very easy to find, that sort of society, for a young man; but ...
— Father Payne • Arthur Christopher Benson
 
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... doctors in the past has been to prescribe for symptoms; the difference between actual disease and a symptom being something that the average man does not even ...
— Love, Life & Work • Elbert Hubbard
 
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... Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the Public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, ...
— Democracy In America, Volume 2 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville
 
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... fate. All seems against him; but I believe and hope he will win—at least, beat back the invaders. What right have we to prescribe sovereigns to France? Oh for a Republic! "Brutus, thou sleepest." [9] Hobhouse abounds in continental anecdotes of this extraordinary man; all in favour of his intellect and courage, but against his bonhommie. No wonder;—how should he, who knows mankind well, do ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron
 
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... recognise the defects of justice than to prescribe the remedy. Certain it is that they have arrived at such a point that they could hardly be graver; yet I know that it is your majesty's desire that the administration of justice should be as pure as the imperfections and corruptions of ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol X • Various
 
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