prescribern.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. 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.

1557 Pet. in H. Swinden Hist. Great Yarmouth (1772) 428 Not as prescribers, but humbell submitters.

1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects 71 The first Prescriber of their rites.

1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ix. 166 None of these Great Prescribers, do ever fail providing themselves and their Notions, with a Number of implicite Disciples.

1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. 35 I was impelled to..your Destruction..by the bloody Prescribers of Custom.

1880 L. S. Beale Slight Ailm. 21 Popular prescribers of decillionths of grains.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 2 Oct. 6/3 Prescription is all very well if you are satisfied as to the infallibility of the prescriber.

1992 Utne Reader Nov. 77/2 State education departments must stop being bean counters and prescribers and become standard setters and monitors.

a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) xiii. 221 Hence is neither the Physick to be under-prized nor the Prescriber.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. Pref. The best prescriber can hardly confide in his own prescriptions.

1784 S. Johnson Let. 16 Aug. (1994) IV. 371 If the virtue of medicines could be enforced by the benevolence of the Prescriber how soon should I be well.

1851 J. Cumming Foreshadows (1854) viii. 233 The cure is not in the prescription, but in the prescriber.

1977 Lancet 24 Dec. 1360/1 Your editorial perpetuates the myth of vast numbers of medicines available to the prescriber.

1991 S. Gibson & R. Gibson Homoeopathy for Everyone (new ed.) xi. 180 An eminent homoeopathic prescriber predicted that we were laying ourselves open to invasion by as yet unknown diseases against which we would have little defence. The appearance recently of Legionnaire's Disease..would seem to vindicate his opinion.

?1717 in J. Keble Life T. Wilson: Pt. I (1863) x. 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.

1752 A. McDouall Inst. Laws Scotl. II. 182 The law..thereupon transfers the right from the former owner, or creditor, to the prescriber.

1796 J. Sinclair Answers Petition Miss Jean Munro 17 Another part of the same bond or estate will be lost by the same prescriptive title upon which the whole has been enjoyed by the prescriber.

1911 Yale Law Jrnl. 21 153 The prescriber must have acquired possession in a lawful manner.

1954 tr. Rex Pacificus in E. Lewis Medieval Polit. Thinking II. vii. 470 For prescription, however long, to be valid, it is necessary that the prescriber have good faith, since a possessor in bad faith cannot prescribe.

2001 Fulton County Daily Rep. (Nexis) 20 July Prescriptive rights, however, must be strictly construed, and the prescriber must give notice, either actual or constructive, to the landowner.