Verb

• S: (v) order, prescribe, dictate (issue commands or orders for)
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) inflict, bring down, visit, impose (impose something unpleasant) "The principal visited his rage on the students"
• S: (v) communicate, intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings) "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist"
• S: (v) interact (act together or towards others or with others) "He should interact more with his colleagues"
• S: (v) act, move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)) "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) prescribe (recommend as beneficial) "my mother prescribes a good night's sleep as the cure for all ills"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• sentence frame
• S: (v) prescribe ((medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription) "the doctor prescribed steroids for my ear trouble"

Adjective

• S: (adj) prescribed (set down as a rule or guide)
• S: (adj) appointed, decreed, ordained, prescribed (fixed or established especially by order or command) "at the time appointed (or the appointed time)"
• S: (adj) official, prescribed (conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline) "in prescribed order"
• S: (adj) positive, prescribed (formally laid down or imposed) "positive laws"