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Prescribed   /priskrˈaɪbd/   Listen
Prescribed

adjective
1.
Set down as a rule or guide.
2.
Fixed or established especially by order or command.  Synonyms: appointed, decreed, ordained.
3.
Conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline.  Synonym: official.
4.
Formally laid down or imposed.  Synonym: positive.


Prescribe

verb
(past & past part. prescribed; pres. part. prescribing)
1.
Issue commands or orders for.  Synonyms: dictate, order.





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... we found out how this frail old plant had lived where the whole great forest had fallen. She was a confirmed invalid and an asthmatic. Oxygen had been prescribed for her malady, and a tube was in her room at the moment of the crisis. She had naturally inhaled some as had been her habit when there was a difficulty with her breathing. It had given her relief, and by doling out her supply she had managed to survive the night. Finally she ...
— The Poison Belt • Arthur Conan Doyle
... subjects which, according to the will of Canon Bampton, are prescribed for the Lecturers upon his foundation, is the confirmation and establishment of the Christian faith. This is the aim which I have kept in view in preparing this volume; and I should wish my book to be judged as a contribution to apologetics, rather than as a historical sketch ...
— Christian Mysticism • William Ralph Inge
... was found that at Nottingham she had once gone to the parish doctor for some medicine for her child. The physician had taken particular notice of her, had asked her some questions, and had made a note in his case-book that the mother of the child he had prescribed for was in an advanced stage of consumption, and had probably but a few weeks, certainly not more than a few months, ...
— Captain Bayley's Heir: - A Tale of the Gold Fields of California • G. A. Henty
... made no change in the style of gondolas, or anything else in Venice. The prow of the Venetian gondola made today is of the same height as that prescribed by Tommaso Mocenigo, Doge in the year Fourteen Hundred. The regulated height of the prow is to insure protection for the passengers when going under bridges, but its peculiar halberd shape is a thing not one of the five thousand gondoliers in Venice can explain. If you ask your gondolier ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 4 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters • Elbert Hubbard
... some widely different conception. They must have believed that the mental progress of the child—the only aspect of progress which concerned educationalists in those days—would best be tested by a formal examination on a prescribed syllabus, and would best be secured by preparation for such a test; and they must have accepted, perhaps without the consent of their consciousness, whatever theory of education may be ...
— What Is and What Might Be - A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular • Edmond Holmes


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