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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

    of Prescribe

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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. Mike Focazio:

    If George Cushnie look at the concentrations that we detect -- even at those high concentrations -- and George Cushnie compare it to the dose that somebody would take -- even in, again, those places with very high levels or higher than elsewhere -- George Cushnie'd have to drink enormous amounts of water just to get back to that prescribed dose, but the question is : What does it mean from a health standpoint when these low levels get out into the environment ?

  2. Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan:

    They [doctors] have prescribed hundreds if not thousands of opioid prescriptions, most of the time without even seeing the proposed patients, one hundred and fifteen people a day are dying of opioid overdoses. That's more people than are killed in car wrecks.

  3. The Hillsong Global Board:

    An in-depth investigation found that Pastor Brian became disoriented... following the consumption of anti-anxiety medication beyond the prescribed dose, mixed with alcohol.

  4. Elwin Mommers:

    ' You can do anything you want' is the first thing we tell them. If you look at the studies, the exercises that are prescribed to treat it, or attempt to treat it, are completely opposite of each other. Some focus on stretching, others focus on pulling it all together, and none of them work.

  5. Adam Schiff:

    The President and The President men plot on. The danger persists. The risk is real. Our democracy is at peril, but we are not without a remedy prescribed by the founders for just these circumstances. Impeachment. The only question is will we use it or have we fallen prey to another evil that the founders forewarned, the excess of factualism, the elevation of party over country.

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