prescribe

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).
    — The doctor prescribed aspirin.
  2. To specify by writing as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.
    — The property meets the criteria prescribed by the regulations.
  3. To develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription).
    — Most probable that one presentation and 40 years possession thereafter, is sufficient to prescribe a right of patronage.
  4. To become invalidated or unenforceable by prescription, to lapse

词形变化

prescribes present,singular,third-person prescribing participle,present prescribed participle,past prescribed past præscribe alternative,archaic

词汇关系

反义词
proscribe
衍生词
coprescribe deprescribe misprescribe nonprescribing overprescribe prescribable prescribee prescriber represcribe underprescribe unprescribe
相关词
prescription prescriptionist prescriptive prescriptivism prescriptivist

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
Proto-Italic *skreiβō
Latin scrībō
Latin praescrībōbor.
English prescribe
Borrowed from Latin praescrībere, from prae- (“before, in front”) and scrībere (“to write”).
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