prescribe
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Rees, one of the last surviving sons of the Mormon pioneers who worked with Brigham Young, wrote two books, “I Prescribe Laughter” and “Rambling Thoughts in Verse.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2018
Prescribe basic policies governing the filling of the Federal Government's requirements for manpower, excluding those of the military and naval forces, and issue operating directives.
From Time Magazine Archive
So modern 'Pothecaries, taught the art By Doctor's bills to play the Doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander
"Prescribe the form of words we must lay hold of to achieve the object, and we will set to work, arch-casuist."
From The Symposium by Dakyns, Henry Graham
Bold in the practice of mistaken rules Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
From An Essay on Criticism by Pope, Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing prescribe
Vocabulary from the Constitution of the United States
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"Preamble" and "Bill of Rights," Vocabulary from the U.S. Constitution
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Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
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