prescribes

But the meaning of a term prescribes its correct application in infinitely many other novel situations that we have not encountered before.

Externalism About Mental Content Lau, Joe 2008

A chalice does not lose its consecration by the mere wearing away of the gilding, because the whole chalice is consecrated; but it becomes unfit for the purpose of consecrating in it, for the rubric prescribes that it be gilded on the inside.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

The ruby ring was made for her little finger instead of the fourth, on which the rubric prescribes that it should be put.

The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) Charles Greville 1829

If a fabric’s care label prescribes dry cleaning, spot and stain removal too must be done with dry-cleaning fluids.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

If a fabric’s care label prescribes dry cleaning, spot and stain removal too must be done with dry-cleaning fluids.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

If a fabric’s care label prescribes dry cleaning, spot and stain removal too must be done with dry-cleaning fluids.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

If a fabric’s care label prescribes dry cleaning, spot and stain removal too must be done with dry-cleaning fluids.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

Religion, in short, prescribes mischievous practices, becomes impotent except for the production of misery, and is really, though not avowedly, dependent on the popular sanction. [

The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868

I would also like to follow the fast my church prescribes, which is no animal products from now until Christmas.

Inflammation and intermittent fasting | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007

But note that there is also an implicit warning against a stronger alternative when a care label specifies a gentler one; for example, a label that prescribes warm water is implicitly warning you not to use hot, even though no warning words are used explicitly.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005