Prescribe

pre-skrib', v. [-scribed (-skribd'), -scribing.] To lay down authoritatively for direction, appoint, order, dictate, ordain, establish. {Med.) To direct as a remedy to be used by or for a patient. — To give law, dictate, give directions. (Med.) To write or give medical directions. (Law.) To claim by prescription, or on the ground of immemorial use. [L. prsescribere, prse and scribere, to write.] — Prescrib'er, n. — Pre's cript, a. Directed; prescribed. — Prescript'ible, a. Depending or derived from prescription.— Prescrip'tion, n. Act of prescribing or directing, or that which is prescribed; esp., the direction of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them. (Law.) The claim of title to a thing by virtue of immemorial use and enjoyment. [OF.] — Prescriptive, -iv, a. Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial use and enjoyment.