prescribe
— Verb
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～ (medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription; "the doctor prescribed steroids for my ear trouble"
prescribe
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～ recommend as beneficial; "my mother prescribes a good night's sleep as the cure for all ills"
prescribed
— Adjective
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～ set down as a rule or guide
prescribed
— Adjective
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～ formally laid down or imposed; "positive laws"
prescribed
— Adjective
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～ conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline; "in prescribed order"
prescribed
— Adjective
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～ fixed or established especially by order or command; "at the time appointed (or the appointed time)"
prescript
— Noun
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～ prescribed guide for conduct or action
prescription drug
— Noun
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～ a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist; "he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly"
prescription
— Noun
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～ written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient
prescription medicine
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～ a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist; "he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly"
prescription
— Noun
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～ a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist; "he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly"
prescription
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～ written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person
prescription
— Noun
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～ directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions; "I tried to follow her prescription for success"
prescription
— Adjective
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～ available only with a doctor's written prescription; "a prescription drug"
prescriptive linguistics
— Noun
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～ an account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used; a prescription for the `correct' phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics
prescriptive grammar
— Noun
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～ a grammar that is produced by prescriptive linguistics
prescriptive
— Adjective
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～ pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"
prescriptivism
— Noun
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～ (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior
prescriptivism
— Noun
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～ (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics
preseason
— Noun
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～ a period prior to the beginning of the regular season which is devoted to training and preparation