prescription

The surgeon had written thousands of prescriptions for pain killers without proper examinations before the police raided the clinic.

"Oh, yes; she is the only sort of person for a nurse. She always," cried Lady Anne, with a sneer, "comes to you with a receipt for a pudding in one hand to make you ill, and then a prescription in the other to cure you."

Change is the universal prescription for a wounded spirit. "It will do you so much good," is the constant remark.

A statute that cannot find justification for its prescription in one or more of these principles violates international law.

There is an air of prescription about him which is always agreeable to Sir Leicester; he receives it as a kind of tribute.