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
I will use the olive with my sword: Make war breed peace; make peace stint war; make each Prescribe to other, as each other's leech.
From Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
He must—no questions I'll allow,— Prescribe me a receipt.
From The Poems of Schiller — Suppressed poems by Schiller, Friedrich
Prescribe your conditions, but let them come back into the Union upon such terms as you may prescribe.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio
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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