prescribed
[ pri-skrahybd ]
adjective
dictated or indicated as a rule or course of action to be followed: To limit your definition of art to certain prescribed forms is to cut yourself off from the bulk of human existence.
Medicine/Medical. (of a medicine, treatment, etc.) recommended or ordered by a qualified practitioner: Test results for legal or prescribed drugs are returned in about two minutes.
verb
the simple past tense and past participle of prescribe.
Origin of prescribed
1Other words from prescribed
- non·pre·scribed, adjective
- self-pre·scribed, adjective
- un·pre·scribed, adjective
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How to use prescribed in a sentence
This of course is the self-prescribed social disposition of a hipster, an aloof—but meaningless—swagger.
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