prescribe

v. write an order form for medication; order remedies or treatment (about a doctor); recommend, advise

Prescription has various meanings.Medical prescription, written by a health care professional to a pharmacistEyeglass prescription, written by an ophthalmologist or an optometristLinguistic prescription, the laying down of normative language rulesPrescription drug, a drug available only by a medical prescriptionPrescriptive period, similar to statute of limitations, applied to periods during which rights and obligations are legally enforceablePrescription (law), a doctrine in international law analogous to adverse possession where sovereignty over a territory is transferred from one state to another through prolonged acquiesence by the original sovereign of the recipient state's actions.Period of Prescription, a civil law system analogue to the common law institute of a statute of limitations
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Verb
1. issue commands or orders for
(synonym) order, dictate
(hypernym) inflict, bring down, visit, impose
(hyponym) mandate
(derivation) prescription

v. prescribe, write an order form for medication; order remedies or treatment (about a doctor); recommend, advise

(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.
  

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

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

(v. i.)
To influence by long use
  

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

(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.