คำว่า ' prescribe ' ( VT )
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คำนิยามในภาษาอังกฤษ (definition) :
[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.
[v. t.] To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.
[v. i.] To give directions; to dictate.
[v. i.] To influence by long use
[v. i.] To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.
[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.