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PRESCRIBED
prescribed
(adjective) set down as a rule or guide
positive, prescribed
(adjective) formally laid down or imposed; “positive laws”
official, prescribed
(adjective) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline; “in prescribed order”
appointed, decreed, ordained, prescribed
(adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command; “at the time appointed (or the appointed time)”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
prescribed
simple past tense and past participle of prescribe
Source: Wiktionary
PRESCRIBE
Pre*scribe", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prescribed; p. pr & vb. n. Prescribing.] Etym: [L. praescribere, praescriptum; prae before + scriebe to write. See Scribe.]
1. To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct. Prescribe not us our duties. Shak. Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run. Dryden.
2. (Med.)
Definition: To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.
Syn.
– To appoint; order; command; dictate; ordain; institute; establish.
Pre*scribe", v. i.
1. To give directions; to dictate. A forwardness to prescribe to their opinions. Locke.
2. To influence by long use [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
3. (Med.)
Definition: To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.
4. (Law)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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