Prescribe

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

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

(v. i.) To give directions; to dictate.

(v. i.) To influence by long use

(v. i.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.

(v. i.) 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.

校对:玛克辛

• You medical gentlemen must consult which sort of black draught you will prescribe, eh, Mr. Lydgate? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• And such a pilot and ruler will provide and prescribe for the interest of the sailor who is under him, and not for his own or the ruler's interest? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He was summoned to prescribe for a person whom I have had occasion to present to you in these pages--our second housemaid, Rosanna Spearman. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• For the more self-governing a people becomes, the less possible it is to prescribe external restrictions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I have been obliged, greatly against my will, to prescribe for him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• As we shall see in the nineteenth chapter, the psychology of to-day does not know enough about the work ings of the mind to prescribe a fixed mental attitude for the investigator. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It was six o'clock in the morning before the strong opiate which Dr. Bain had prescribed for me produced any effect. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• To careful reasoning of this kind he replies by calling himself Pegasus, and every form of prescribed work 'harness. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I did not stay for the conclusion of the performance; but while I did stay, there was not a bull killed in the prescribed way. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• For there is radical difference between even the most general method and a prescribed rule. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Nugent prescribed for her. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The auspicious event is always commemorated according to certain forms settled and prescribed by Mr. Bagnet some years since. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• After prescribing for Rachel, he said he wished to speak to me privately in another room. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Reason first appears in possession of the throne, prescribing laws, and imposing maxims, with an absolute sway and authority. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• In prescribing meats and drinks would he wish to go beyond another physician or beyond the practice of medicine? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Politics is not concerned with prescribing the ultimate qualities of life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Only if the doctor prescribes it. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

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