Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: prescribed
IPA transcription: [pɹiskɹ'aɪbd]
Pronunciations of prescribed
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adverb meaning of the word
  • 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.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Ship commissioning, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Pimple, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Liturgy of the Hours, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Order of Canada, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Major depressive disorder, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Martha Layne Collins, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Han dynasty, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Social anxiety, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Fentanyl, License CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America), License CC BY-SA 4.0