(~s, prescribing, ~d)
1.
If a doctor ~s medicine or treatment for you, he or she tells you what medicine or treatment to have.
Our doctor diagnosed a throat infection and ~d antibiotic and junior aspirin...
She took twice the ~d dose of sleeping tablets...
The law allows doctors to ~ contraception to the under 16s.
VERB: V n, V-ed, V n to n
2.
If a person or set of laws or rules ~s an action or duty, they state that it must be carried out. (FORMAL)
...article II of the constitution, which ~s the method of electing a president...
Alliott told Singleton he was passing the sentence ~d by law.
VERB: V n, V-ed