Definition of "prescribe"

prescribe

/pɹɪˈskɹaɪb/

verb
third-person singular simple present prescribes, present participle prescribing, simple past and past participle prescribed
1. (medicine) To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).
2. To specify by writing as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.
  Quotations
  Prescribe not us our duties.
  c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]
  When Parents loves are order’d by a Son,Let ſtreams preſcribe their fountains where to run.
  1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour […]‎, London: Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman, published 1667, Act I, scene ii, page 5
3. (law) To develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription).
  Quotations
  Most probable that one presentation and 40 years possession thereafter, is sufficient to prescribe a right of patronage.
  1753, Andrew McDouall, An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights […] , volume 3, Table of Contents, page 86
  […] held, in a question with a party who had acquired right from the commissioners of the forfeited estates to the estate of the forfeited superior, as it stood in his person, that the crown charter of the vassal was a valid title on which to prescribe a right to the coal […]
  1834, Patrick Shaw, Digest of Cases Decided in the Courts of Session, Teinds, and Justiciary in the House of Lords, 1821–1833 […] , page 135
  Because of the juristic difficulties associated with the Donation of Constantine, the question of whether the papacy had in any case prescribed its jurisdiction in the patrimony had become a common topic amongst jurists […]
  1987, Joseph Canning, The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis, page 53

Definition of "prescribe"

prescribe

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