Associations to the word «Prescribe»

Wiktionary

PRESCRIBE, verb. To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient.
PRESCRIBE, verb. To specify as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.

Dictionary definition

PRESCRIBE, verb. Issue commands or orders for.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky