prescribe

Meaning

To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).
To specify by writing as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.
To develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription).

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹɪˈskɹaɪb/

Borrowed from Latin praescrībere, from prae- (“before, in front”) and scrībere (“to write”).

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