To guarantee this covenant, the Sovereign of nature prescribes a melancholy, ridiculous, and whimsical ceremony, to the observance of which a God of wisdom attaches his favors.
If the Freethinker is blind or corrupted, by not knowing his duties which nature prescribes to him, it is precisely in the same way as the superstitious, whose invisible motives and sacred guides prevent him not from going occasionally astray.
That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate.
One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
The act of tendering in the performance of a contract or satisfaction of a claim that which the law prescribes or permits, and at such time and place as the law prescribes or permits.
Whenever they are useless it is our duty to despise them; as soon as they become pernicious, it is imperative to reject them; reason imperiously prescribes that our detestation should be commensurate with the evils which they cause.
Mrs. Cregan lived many years after Hardress's departure, practising the austere and humiliating works of piety which her Church prescribes for the penitent.
Surely all these evils may be avoided by that deliberation and delay which prudence prescribes to irrevocable choice.
By these powers the sovereignty prescribes the law and directs its application to the vindication of rights and the redress of wrongs.
If nature prescribes it, nature will carry out her own ordinances without your prohibitory legislation.
The most laughable of all Bulleyn's receipts is one in which, for the cure of a child suffering under a certain nervous malady, he prescribes "a smal yong mouse rosted.
None are to partake of it save those who have been "baptized in the name of the Lord" (an expression which is of interest in a document which prescribes the threefold formula).
It prescribes a fast before baptism for the baptizer as well as the candidate.
For the Vinaya frequently[163] prescribes that the robe is to be adjusted so as to fall over only one shoulder as a mark of special respect, which implies that it was usually worn over both shoulders.
When the king has been duly bathed the programme prescribes that "le Directeur des Bakous remettra la couronne รข M.
It contains neither devotional nor magical matter but prescribes a course of austere mental training, based on psychological analysis and culminating in the rapture of meditation.
The absence of the former is remarkable: he eats flesh and allows himself to be anointed: he drinks wine, prescribes its use in religion and is credited with producing it miraculously when human cellars run short.
No more I have, but I ain't well, and I prescribes for myself.
While the comptroller prescribes all systems of record, reports, statistics, and accounts, he should make no radical changes without discussing the proposed change with those whose work will be directly affected.
This explains why the comptroller prescribes all systems for the care and recording of stores, supplies, and finished product.
The sales manager hires all salesmen, prescribes their territories and routes, and supervises their expense accounts.
Dr Sydney Ringer prescribes a 1/16th grain of sulphide of sodium, mixed with sugar of milk, three or four times a day on the tongue; but this should only be administered under medical supervision.
Bouchardat prescribes a strong infusion made by displacement (percolation), and mixed with a little brandy, in poisoning by opium and other like narcotics, after the administration of emetics and ioduretted water.
Mr Buckland prescribes a diet of roe of sole, or plaice, or whiting.
From the third to the fifth year he prescribes a small quantity of meat, and at the end of the ninth year the usual food of the family.
To the Communist in particular the humane liberal says: If society prescribes to you your activity, then this is indeed free from the influence of the individual, i.
As regards "social duties" in general, another does not give me my position toward others, therefore neither God nor humanity prescribes to me my relation to men, but I give myself this position.
As our Lord nowhere prescribes any special form of administering the Sacrament, the Church exercises her discretion in adopting the most convenient mode, according to the circumstances of time and place.
The Sacramentary, or ancient Roman Ritual, revised by Pope St. Gregory in the sixth century, prescribes the blessing of oil by the Bishop, and the prayers to be recited in the anointing of the sick.
This measure penalises with three years' imprisonment those exposing others to infection even ignorantly and prescribes compulsory medical attendance.
Where the existing law prescribes the formula of oath in a religious form, an individual may also be legally sworn so as to omit the religious form by saying the words: I swear.
Fauvel prescribes it in affections of the respiratory passages.
Wood prescribes to the newsmongers in London what they are to write.
If a physician prescribes to a patient a dram of physic, shall a rascal apothecary cram him with a pound, and mix it up with poison?
The first clause of the charter prescribes that, when civil and criminal cases are tried in court, the testimony of a Christian against a Jew is to be accepted only if confirmed by the deposition of a Jewish witness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prescribes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
