prescribe

IPA: prʌskrˈaɪb

(medicine) 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.
(law) To develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription).

Examples of "prescribe" in Sentences

The doctor prescribed the welt.
Doctors prescribe home remedies.
Will your doctor prescribe antibiotics
The procedure prescribed by the Criminal.
Forbidding the critic to prescribe is itself a prescription.
Rousseau was the first to prescribe the abolition of the city.
A primary physician will not prescribe drugs to end his patient's life.
The woman continues with the prescribed medicines until the child birth.
In this case, the displacements are prescribed everywhere in the boundary.
In practice, few care labels prescribe vigorous laundering for table linens.
An eye doctor forgot to prescribe the right medicine after carrying out laser surgery.
For example, if you have allergies, your doctor might "prescribe" over-the-counter Claritin.
Okada bowed low -- as low as the rules of Japanese etiquette prescribe, which is to say that he bent himself almost double.
If medicine is not properly prescribed, it could result in death, illness or handicap a patient for the rest of his or her life.
Before its adoption, the Constitution of the United States did not in terms prescribe who should be citizens of the United States or of the several States, yet there were necessarily such citizens without such provision.