From the Latin for "prescribe", it can mean to give orders, or to talk aloud for transcription
...... Tell her no power on earth will prevent me reading in the Senate 
aloud... [DOC] [TLE] Wiktionary talk:About Hebrew/archives/2008 - Wiktionary [PAR] This is fundamentally extraphonemic and does not necessarily imply that the 
vowel is ... friend in England who insisted that I not prescribe the stress explicitly, 
as he ... this would only mean that Tiberian Hebrew merged its A-grade and O-
grade .... One decent transcription system was proposed by Ruakh above on this 
talk... [DOC] [TLE] Editorial Style Guide | Sarah Lawrence College [PAR] Because Sarah Lawrence does not follow a traditional grading system, the .... 
also known as collective or noncount nouns because they are not countable (
amid talk of war).