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