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Princeton's WordNet

  1. prescribedadjective

    set down as a rule or guide

  2. appointed, decreed, ordained, prescribedadjective

    fixed or established especially by order or command

    "at the time appointed (or the appointed time")

  3. official, prescribedadjective

    conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline

    "in prescribed order"

  4. positive, prescribedadjective

    formally laid down or imposed

    "positive laws"

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  1. prescribed

    Prescribed generally means officially or authoritatively instructed, advised, or ordered to be followed. It's often used in the context of medicine where a doctor prescribes a specific medication or treatment for a patient, or in law where specific rules or procedures are prescribed. However, it can be used in any context where specific guidelines or actions are formally set out or recommended.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Prescribed

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of prescribed in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of prescribed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of prescribed in a Sentence

  1. Randy Moore:

    Our primary goal in engaging prescribed fires and wildfires is to ensure the safety of the communities involved. Our employees who are engaging in prescribed fire operations are part of these communities across the nation, the communities we serve, and our employees deserve the very best tools and science supporting them as we continue to navigate toward reducing the risk of severe wildfires in the future.

  2. Thomas Britton:

    [The FDA] adheres to strict tracking guidelines that would make it difficult for counterfeit drugs to show up in pharmacies, regardless of that fact, anybody who is prescribed a narcotic should be aware of the high addictive potential of these medications.

  3. Brianna Moore:

    So some women may use it in pregnancy, thinking that it's a safe alternative to other medicines, even prescribed medications, yet studies show connections between marijuana use during pregnancy and low-birth weight in babies and behavioral problems later in childhood, and there may be links to glucose and weight issues as well.

  4. Channa Jayasena:

    Even if HRT increased the future risk of Alzheimer's, several years of treatment would be needed, and the effect is marginal, the results of this study should not change the way HRT is prescribed or viewed.

  5. Frederick Douglass:

    Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

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