0 present participle of prescribe
1 (of a doctor) to say what medical treatment someone should have:
[ + two objects ] I've been prescribed painkillers.
2 to tell someone what they must have or do, or to make a rule of something:
[ + that ] The law prescribes that all children must go to school.
[ + question word ] Grammatical rules prescribe how words may be used together.
The doctor prescribed some medicine and told her to have a week's rest.
Is there anything stronger you can prescribe?
He wouldn't prescribe anything - just recommended rest.
In addition to prescribing forms of work to the patient, each of the three models assigns the physician a moral function alongside his technical function.
The aim was to teach students the principles of appropriate prescribing and students have generally found it useful.
Physician attitudes and concerns were relatively more correlated with their ratings of reluctance to prescribe than with their actual frequency of prescribing.
