PRESCRIBED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prescribed mean? 

• PRESCRIBED (adjective)
  The adjective PRESCRIBED has 4 senses:

1. set down as a rule or guide

2. fixed or established especially by order or command

3. conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline

4. formally laid down or imposed

  Familiarity information: PRESCRIBED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESCRIBED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Set down as a rule or guide

Similar:

nonarbitrary; unarbitrary (not subject to individual determination)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fixed or established especially by order or command

Synonyms:

appointed; decreed; ordained; prescribed

Context example:

at the time appointed (or the appointed time)

Similar:

settled (established or decided beyond dispute or doubt)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline

Synonyms:

official; prescribed

Context example:

in prescribed order

Similar:

regular (in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Formally laid down or imposed

Synonyms:

positive; prescribed

Context example:

positive laws

Similar:

formal (being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress))

 Context examples 

Failure of a patient to follow medical advice, take medication as directed, or adhere to a prescribed course of treatment.

(Patient Noncompliance, NCI Thesaurus)

Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) Take his/her medications as prescribed (according to the right dosage)?

(DAD - Take Medications as Prescribed, NCI Thesaurus)

Current Opioid Misuse Measure (COMM) In the past 30 days, how often have you taken your medications differently from how they are prescribed?

(COMM - Taken Medications Other Than Prescribed, NCI Thesaurus)

Current Opioid Misuse Measure (COMM) In the past 30 days, how often have you had to take more of your medication than prescribed?

(COMM - Take More Medication Than Prescribed, NCI Thesaurus)

An event, entity or condition that typically characterizes a prescribed environment or situation and determines or aids in determining whether certain stated circumstances exist or criteria are satisfied.

(Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

You should also monitor your glucose level and take medicine if prescribed.

(Diabetes, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

In quantity, the formula prescribed twelve hundred words minimum dose, fifteen hundred words maximum dose.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A warm climate may be prescribed for her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Presently she woke, and I gave her food, as Van Helsing had prescribed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I then bound myself once more to the prescribed conditions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)