Proscribe vs. Prescribe — What's the Difference?

Forbid, especially by law

(of a medical practitioner) advise and authorize the use of (a medicine or treatment) for someone, especially in writing

To prohibit; forbid

State authoritatively or as a rule that (an action or procedure) should be carried out

To denounce or condemn

To set down as a rule, law, or direction

To banish or outlaw (a person)

To order the use of (a medicine or other treatment).

To publish the name of (a person) as outlawed.

To establish rules, laws, or directions.

(transitive) To forbid or prohibit.

To order a medicine or other treatment.

(transitive) To denounce.

(medicine) To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).

(transitive) To banish or exclude.

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

To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents.

(law) To develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription).

To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters.

To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.

Command against;

To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.

To give directions; to dictate.

To influence by long use

To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.

To claim by prescription; to claim a title to a thing on the ground of immemorial use and enjoyment, that is, by a custom having the force of law.

Issue commands or orders for