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
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I pray you, to your former argument: Prescribe a means to win my best-belov'd.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
Prescribe for them then through Thy Pen of Glory that which will direct their steps to the ocean of Thy generosity and will lead them unto the living waters of Thy heavenly reunion.
From Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh
Prescribe the bath, frictions, and fomentations, and though it seems a round-about way, you get at the brains by his feet.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac
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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