Synonyms:
prescribed
Meaning: set down as a rule or guide
Synonyms:
appointed, decreed, ordained, prescribed
Meaning: fixed or established especially by order or command; "at the time appointed (or the appointed time")
Usage examples
She wanted it to be prescribed, and felt as a duty.
Boiled snails and powdered bats were prescribed for intestinal disorders."
For the pains I prescribed some quarter-grain tablets of sulphate of morphia, and went away.
Even such drugs as are prescribed by physicians have harmful effects, and nostrums recommended by druggists are often worse still.
Custom has prescribed that on these occasions the colour of the victim shall be black, as an emblem of the wished-for rain-clouds.
Under the widow's instructions, she was preparing the peculiar vegetable diet which had been prescribed by Doctor Fontaine as part of the cure.
Madame Fontaine, under her husband's instructions, assisted in nursing the sick man, and in giving the nourishment prescribed when he was able to eat.
Their military weapons attained colossal proportions, and their projectiles, exceeding the prescribed limits, unfortunately occasionally cut in two some unoffending pedestrians.
As fast as the social tempest abated, it became necessary to respect the union and heritage of these villeins, who by their labor had truly prescribed the soil for their own profit."
"Ashes of wolf's skull, stag's horn, the heads of mice, the eyes of crabs, owl's brains, liver of frogs, viper's fat, grasshoppers, bats, etc., these supplied the alkalis which were prescribed.