said of a doctor: to order or recommend (a drug, medicine, or treatment) as a remedy for an illness
to recommend (something) to somebody as likely to have a beneficial effect
to give specific and authoritative instructions regarding (something); to lay (something) down
the penalty prescribed by law
to write or give medical prescriptions
to lay down a rule; to dictate
to claim a title to something by right of prescription
prescriber noun
[Latin praescribere to write at the beginning, dictate, order, from prae- + scribere to write]