prescribes is a form of:
Prescribe
verb — past tense: prescribed ; past participle: prescribed ; present participle: prescribing ;
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- (TRANSITIVE) (to order or direct; to lay down authoritatively for direction; to set out rules, for) prescribe treatment ដាក់បញ្ញត្ដិ prescribe medicine ចេញ សំបុត្រអោយទិញថ្នាំ (ពីគ្រូពេទ្យ) prescribe honesty អោយប្រកាន់នូវ
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- (បច្ចេកទេស) អាជ្ញាយុកាល សេចក្តីបង្គាប់ (បញ្ជា ឬសេចក្តីបង្គាប់)
ENGLISH MEANING
verb — past tense: prescribed ; past participle: prescribed ; present participle: prescribing ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.
- 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To give directions; to dictate.
- 4.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To influence by long use
- 5.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) 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.
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- fix, impose, dictate, lay down, ordain, decree