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prescriber|prɪˈskraɪbə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
One who prescribes.
1. One who appoints or ordains.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke Pref., The physycians of the bodyes, haue practycioners, and potycaryes that dooe ministre theyr arte vnder theym: and themselfes are the prescrybers and appoyncters what it is that muste bee geuen to the sycke. 1557Pet. in H. Swinden Hist. Gt. Yarmouth (1772) 428 Not as prescribers, but humbell submitters. 1630Lord Banians 71 The first Prescriber of their rites. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 63, I was impelled to..your destruction..by the bloody prescribers of custom. 1907in Westm. Gaz. 2 Oct. 6/3 Prescription is all very well if you are satisfied as to the infallibility of the prescriber.
2. One who writes a medical prescription. Also fig.
[1548: see sense 1.] a1660Hammond xix Serm. xiii. Wks. 1684 IV. 652 Hence is neither the physick to be under-prized, nor the Prescriber. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. Pref., The best prescriber can hardly confide in his own prescriptions. 1851J. Cumming Foreshadows viii. (1854) 233 The cure is not in the prescription, but in the prescriber.
3. One who holds or claims by prescription. rare.
1717in Keble Life Bp. T. Wilson x. (1863) 348 Being thoroughly convinced of the Divine right of paying tithes in kind, and being one of the ancient prescribers in this isle, [he] did freely..give up the said prescription into the hands of the Bishop. |