If a person or set of laws or rules prescribes an action or duty, they state that it must be carried out. article II of the constitution, which prescribes the method of electing a president Alliott told Singleton he was passing the sentence prescribed by law
{f} write an order form for medication; order remedies or treatment (about a doctor); recommend, advise
If a doctor prescribes medicine or treatment for you, he or she tells you what medicine or treatment to have. Our doctor diagnosed a throat infection and prescribed antibiotic and junior aspirin She took twice the prescribed dose of sleeping tablets The law allows doctors to prescribe contraception to the under 16s
To influence by long use To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever