Word Meanings - PRESCRIBE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine. Syn. -- To appoint; order; command; dictate; ordain; institute; establish. (more info) 1. To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to

Additional info about word: PRESCRIBE

To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine. Syn. -- To appoint; order; command; dictate; ordain; institute; establish. (more info) 1. To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct. Prescribe not us our duties. Shak. Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRESCRIBE)

• Appoint
• Fix
• determine
• instal
• allot
• order
• prescribe
• institute
• employ
• apportion
• apply
• designate
• assign
• intrust
• invest
• ordain
• arrange
• Enjoin
• Impress
• mand
• commission
• direct
• admonish
• appoint
• oblige
• Ordain
• Set
• decree
• regulate
• dictate
• establish

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRESCRIBE)

• Learn
• be impressed
• be studious
• be mindful

Related words: (words related to PRESCRIBE)

• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• ADMONISHER
  One who admonishes.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• ALLOTRIOPHAGY
  A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.
• ORDAINMENT
  Ordination. Burke.
• INVESTIGATIVE
  Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.
• OBLIGEMENT
  Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• DIRECT NOMINATION
  The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
• DIRECTRIX
  1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
• INVESTIENT
  Covering; clothing. Woodward.
• IMPRESS
  To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money. The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners. Evelyn. (more info) pref. im- in, on + premere to press. See Press to squeeze, and
• ASSIGNABILITY
  The quality of being assignable.
• ASSIGN
  To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. Kent. (more info)
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• BALLOTER
  One who votes by ballot.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• CALOTTE; CALLOT
  A close cap without visor or brim. Especially: Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law. Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets. Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. To assume the calotte, to
• PREESTABLISH
  To establish beforehand.
• FOREORDAIN
  To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. Hooker.