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# prescribed

verb (past tense and past participle of prescribe: prescribe, prescribes, prescribed, prescribing); adjective (prescribed)

«prescribed» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Of a doctor: told a patient to take a medicine or treatment and wrote it down. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prescribed/#m1)
2. (formal) Set by a rule or authority: the prescribed method, the prescribed books. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prescribed/#m2)

### In the lessons

In health and safety, prescribed medicine is only for the person it was given to, and only at the prescribed dose. In exams the formal sense appears: «use the prescribed method» or «within the prescribed time». Phrases: prescribed medicine, prescribed dose, as prescribed.

### Examples

- The doctor prescribed antibiotics for my ear infection. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prescribed/#x1)
- Take the tablets as prescribed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prescribed/#x2)
- Never take medicine prescribed for someone else. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prescribed/#x3)
- She was prescribed glasses for reading. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prescribed/#x4)
- Answer in the prescribed time of one hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prescribed/#x5)
- The exam lists the prescribed books. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prescribed/#x6)
- The young man wandered up and down the narrow paths, as well as the prescribed limits would allow; the clock struck six; without was heard the horn of a post-boy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prescribed/#x7)

### Note

Noun: prescription. Do not confuse with proscribed (banned). In maths, a prescribed dose like «5 ml twice a day» means 10 ml each day.

## In Jewish tradition

Prescribed means set or fixed. God "prescribed" a limit for the sea, and the psalmist speaks of a book written for him.

**Interpretation.** God's setting limits for the sea shows His rule over nature. The psalmist's roll is read as the Torah that is written for each person.

### Examples

- And prescribed for it My decree, and set bars and doors, (Writings JOB.38.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prescribed/#x1)
- Then said I: 'Lo, I am come with the roll of a book which is prescribed for me; (Writings PSA.40.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prescribed/#x2)

### Note

Noun: prescription. Do not confuse with proscribed (banned). In maths, a prescribed dose like «5 ml twice a day» means 10 ml each day.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «prescribed» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prescribed/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «prescribed» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prescribed/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«prescribed» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/prescribed.html) on Mova free.