Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct. 2. (v. t.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine. 3. (v. i.) To give directions; to dictate. 4. (v. i.) To influence by long use 5. (v. i.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever. 6. (v. i.) To claim by prescription; to claim a title to a thing on the ground of immemorial use and enjoyment, that is, by a custom having the force of law.

Multi-Version Concordance Prescribe (3 Occurrences) 1 Timothy 4:11 Command and teach these things. (See NAS) 1 Timothy 5:7 Press these facts upon them, so that they may live lives free from reproach. (See NAS) Isaiah 10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; (Root in KJV DBY WBS YLT)