Prescribe /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Prescribed; p. pr & vb. n. Prescribing

1. To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.

   Prescribe not us our duties.

   Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run.

2. To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine. (Med.)

1. To give directions; to dictate.

   A forwardness to prescribe to their opinions.

2. To influence by long use [Obs.]
3. To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever. (Med.)
4. To claim by prescription; to claim a title to a thing on the ground of immemorial use and enjoyment, that is, by a custom having the force of law. (Law)