Prescribes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRESCRIBES in dictionary:

VERB:
• PRESCRIBE, to lay down a rule or direction
• (of a medical practitioner) advise and authorize the use of (a medicine or treatment) for someone, especially in writing
• recommend (a substance or action) as something beneficial
• state authoritatively or as a rule that (an action or procedure) should be carried out
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to lay down a rul; dictate

Words related to PRESCRIBES

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Words that contain PRESCRIBES

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How to use PRESCRIBES in a sentence

• In a land of laws, it is the law, and not any mere prevailing sentiment, which prescribes and limits official duty.
• The regimental commander prescribes the exact scheme to be followed in the police of tents.
• It is hoped that those duties may be completed within the time which it prescribes.
• The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated.
• By these powers the sovereignty prescribes the law, and directs its application to the vindication of rights and the redress of wrongs.
• It is she who goes forth to seek him, repeatedly, dressed in purple and pearls, as custom prescribes to a girl who goes to meet her lover.
• The state prescribes who shall have the right to vote, and the various states differ greatly in this respect.
• He prescribes some insignificant remedy, and insists upon its importance, promising to call again to observe its effect.
• But the nature of the law which prescribes the limits has changed with the times.
• The party intended to be satisfied by the oath generally prescribes the mode and purport of it.
• The Church of Rome knows what she is about when she prescribes the telling of the rosary.
• Justice prescribes one course of action, affection another.
• This individual prescribes the manner in which the funeral ceremonies shall be conducted, and advises certain styles of mourning for the family.
• He sometimes prescribes for loose teeth the task of cutting a pound of bread daily.
• He insists on having only lay-mistresses, and prescribes the course of study which these are to teach.
• Both acts were committed previous to the Christian dispensation, which prescribes submissive patience under injuries, and overcoming evil with good.
• At the end of that period the necessity of rest ourselves prescribes a halt in any case.
• Essenes, Zend Avesta prescribes observances similar to those of the, 260-u.
• We, on the contrary, who think ourselves wise, consume the goods of our master while we do nothing willingly that he prescribes.
• This voice of my conscience prescribes to me with certainty, in each particular situation of my existence, what I must do and what I must avoid in that situation.
• It is true that, taken as a whole, there is a certain conformity in the rules it prescribes.
• But convention prescribes that about the nude contour of principles there should be cast a certain drapery of details, and such conventions are better obeyed.
• In its ethical standards, which are two, this sect, like most others, prescribes one course of life for the monk, which is difficult, and another for the laity, which is easy.
• His usual Chinese passport will not suffice, for it is not in the form which the act prescribes shall be the sole permissible evidence of his right to land.
• We often come to the end of our long-suffering a good many times short of the four hundred and ninety a day which Christ prescribes.
• Following in our estimates, aims, and practice the sequence which it prescribes.
• Let us then receive these things, as well as those which Aesculapius prescribes.
• It prescribes opinions, and they must be obeyed by all who belong to the organization, and without reservation or qualification.
• Do you keep an equipage? You must alter the very shape of your carriage, if she prescribes it.
• He will see, though Christianity prescribes neither colour nor shape for the clothing, that it is not indifferent about it.
• The constitution also prescribes the qualifications of senators and representatives.
• The next clause prescribes the qualifications of senators.
• Now, sir, if that position is correct, it prescribes for us one line of policy to be pursued very different from the one that will be proper if it is not correct.

Similar words containing SCRIBE without suffix s and without prefix pre

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