Prescribe vs Prescriber - What's the difference?

As a verb prescribe

is to order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient.

a person, such as a physician, who prescribes medication.

* (archaic)

* The pronunciation with the stressed first syllable is normally used only when added distinction from (proscribe) is required.

(prescrib)

To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient.

The doctor prescribed aspirin.

To specify as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.

* Shakespeare

Prescribe not us our duties.

* Dryden

Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run.

(en noun)

A person, such as a physician, who prescribes medication

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