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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) 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. (v. t.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.

3. (v. i.) To give directions; to dictate.

4. (v. i.) To influence by long use

5. (v. i.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.

6. (v. i.) 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.

Greek

1299. diatasso -- to arrange thoroughly, ie to charge, appoint
... charge, appoint. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: diatasso Phonetic Spelling:
(dee-at-as'-so) Short Definition: I give orders to, prescribe Definition: I ...
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3853. paraggello -- to transmit a message, to order
... 2), gave (1), give...order (1), give instructions (1), giving...instruction (1),
instruct (2), instructed (3), instructing (3), ordered (3), Prescribe (2). ...
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4384. protasso -- appoint beforehand
... Word Origin variant reading for prostasso, qv. appoint beforehand From pro and tasso;
to pre-arrange, ie Prescribe -- before appoint. see GREEK pro. ...
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4929. suntasso -- to arrange (together)
... suntasso Phonetic Spelling: (soon-tas-so) Short Definition: I arrange with, direct,
appoint Definition: I arrange with, direct, appoint, prescribe, ordain. ...
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1379. dogmatizo -- to decree, to subject oneself to an ordinance
... be subject to ordinances. From dogma; to prescribe by statute, ie (reflexively)
to submit to, ceremonially rule -- be subject to ordinances. see GREEK dogma. ...
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4270. prographo -- to write before
... From pro and grapho; to write previously; figuratively, to announce, prescribe --
before ordain, evidently set forth, write (afore, aforetime). see GREEK pro. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3789. kathab -- to write
... describe, record, prescribe, subscribe, writing,. A primitive root; to grave,
by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe ...
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2710. chaqaq -- to cut in, inscribe, decree
... 5:14, to be a scribe simply); by implication, to enact (laws being cut in stone
or metal tablets in primitive times) or (gen.) Prescribe -- appoint, decree ...
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Library

Whether the New Law Ought to Prescribe or Prohibit any External ...
... OF THOSE THINGS THAT ARE CONTAINED IN THE NEW LAW (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether the
New Law ought to prescribe or prohibit any external acts? ...
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Whether Human Law Prescribes Acts of all the virtues?
... Objection 1: It would seem that human law does not prescribe acts of all the virtues. ...
Therefore human law does not prescribe all acts of virtue. ...
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The Explanation of the Passage Offered by the Psychics Considered.
... For that which he prescribes to certain (individuals) he does not prescribe to all."
Does it then follow, too, that to bishops alone he does not prescribe what ...
/.../tertullian/on monogamy/chapter xii the explanation of the.htm

Further Replies to those who Object to Rebuke.
... But wherefore do they, who are unwilling be rebuked, say, "Only prescribe to me,
and pray for me that I may do what you prescribe?" Why do they not rather, in ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 8 further replies to those.htm

I am Told, to Take Another Point, that one of his Followers ...
... in this question, through the mercy of Christ; but that I made answer to my brethren
when they asked me for my opinion, not intending to prescribe for others ...
/.../32 i am told to.htm

On the Precepts of Divine Worship in General
... For they instruct and inform the worshiper, and they prescribe the matter,
form and end of the worship. II. In the precepts which ...
/.../the works of james arminius vol 2/disputation lxviii on the precepts.htm

The Work of Our Sanctification.
... to go. The same rule holds good for all the precepts laid down; that is
to say for all those which prescribe certain duties. Only ...
/.../de caussade/abandonment to divine providence/section iii the work of our.htm

Whether Love to God Ought to have a Mode
... A doctor does not prescribe any limit for health, which he makes as perfect
as he can. But he does prescribe a limit for medicine. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/nature and grace/article six whether love to.htm

The Fast must not be Broken on the Fifth Day of the Last Week In.. ...
... And, therefore, he did not prescribe the order in which it was to be observed,
reserving this to be done by the Apostles, through whom he intended to arrange ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon l the fast must.htm

Whether it is Fittingly Commanded that Man Should Love God with ...
... Reply to Objection 1: The commandment that prescribes an act of virtue does not
prescribe the mode which that virtue derives from another and higher virtue ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is fittingly commanded.htm

Thesaurus

Prescribe (3 Occurrences)
... 5. (vi) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to
prescribe for a patient in a fever. ...Prescribe (3 Occurrences). ...
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Prescribed (31 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Prescribe. Multi-Version Concordance
Prescribed (31 Occurrences). Luke 1:8 Now while he ...
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Presbytery (1 Occurrence)

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Ordain (13 Occurrences)
... (3) To decree, give orders, prescribe: "And doth the power that man adores Ordain
their doom"-Byron. So Esther 9:27, "The Jews ordained.... ...
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Ordination (12 Occurrences)
... (3) To decree, give orders, prescribe: "And doth the power that man adores Ordain
their doom"-Byron. So Esther 9:27, "The Jews ordained.... ...
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Iniquitous (6 Occurrences)
... (DBY). Isaiah 10:1 Woe unto them that decree iniquitous decrees, and to
the writers that prescribe oppression, (DBY RSV). Habakkuk ...
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Determine (13 Occurrences)
... end; to finish. 3. (vt) To fix the form or character of; to shape; to
prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle. 4. (vt) To ...
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Physician (6 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to
prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine. ...
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Bid (35 Occurrences)
... to six Hebrew and as many Greek originals: (1) "to command" (Numbers 14:10 Matthew
1:24 the King James Version, prostasso); (2) "to prescribe" or "order" (John ...
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Appoint (114 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement;
to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of. ...
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Bible Concordance

Prescribe (3 Occurrences)

1 Timothy 4:11 Command and teach these things.
(See NAS)

1 Timothy 5:7 Press these facts upon them, so that they may live lives free from reproach.
(See NAS)

Isaiah 10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
(Root in KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Subtopics

Prescribe

Related Terms

Prescribed (31 Occurrences)

Presbytery (1 Occurrence)

Ordain (13 Occurrences)

Ordination (12 Occurrences)