3. (Med.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies;
as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.
4. (Law) 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.
Pre*scrib"er (?), n. One who prescribes.
Pre"script (?), a. [L. praescriptus, p. p. of praescribere: cf. F.
prescrit. See Prescribe.] Directed; prescribed. " A prescript from of
words." Jer. Taylor.