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What is another word for prescribes?

Pronunciation: [pɹɪskɹˈa͡ɪbz] (IPA)

Prescribes is a word that is commonly used in medical contexts, but it's also used more generally to refer to any situation where someone is providing guidance or instructions on what to do. If you're looking for synonyms for "prescribes," there are a number of options to consider. Some possible choices include "recommends," "advises," "instructs," "orders," "directs," "suggests," "guides," "counsels," and "suggests." Each of these words has a slightly different connotation, so it's important to choose the one that best fits the situation at hand. Regardless of which word you choose, however, the meaning will be similar: providing guidance or direction on what to do.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Prescribes

Still, it's to Mavy's credit that when the case is serious he generally prescribes a visit to the nearest doctor.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
Our story lies in that part of the country where great farms are still found in the hands of peasants; these descend by inheritance from one generation to another; and with them certain lines of social demarcation which exclude from the farmer's circle those who are styled the "common people;" even at the inn an unwritten law prescribes that the farmers should sit at a separate table from the laborers and mechanics.
"Landolin"
Berthold Auerbach
Who can blame him for having followed the voice of his conscience, that sacred, interior voice, which alone prescribes the duties of man and which has preceded all human laws?
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh

Famous quotes with Prescribes

  • We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence.
    Edward Everett
  • Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of Religion, that we shall discover Truth, Reason, and Morality. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from the remedies which nature prescribes; far from curing, it only aggravates, multiplies, and perpetuates them.
    Baron d'Holbach
  • There is a relation between persons and role. But the relationship answers to the interactive system—to the frame—in which the role is performed and the self of the performer is glimpsed. Self, then, is not an entity half-concealed behind events, but a changeable formula for managing oneself during them. Just as the current situation prescribes the official guise behind which we will conceal ourselves, so it provides where and how we will show through, the culture itself prescribing what sort of entity we must believe ourselves to be in order to have something to show through in this manner.
    Erving Goffman
  • Voluptuaries of all ages, of every sex, it is to you only that I offer this work; nourish yourselves upon its principles: they favor your passions, and these passions, whereof coldly insipid moralists put you in fear, are naught but the means Nature employs to bring man to the ends she prescribes to him; harken only to these delicious promptings, for no voice save that of the passions can conduct you to happiness.
    Marquis de Sade
  • Science has adapted itself entirely to the wealthy classes and accordingly has set itself to heal those who can afford everything, and it prescribes the same methods for those who have nothing to spare.
    Leo Tolstoy

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