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
prescribed
simple past tense and past participle of prescribe
Source: Wiktionary
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
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
