Verb

• S: (v) order, prescribe, dictate (issue commands or orders for)
• 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
• S: (v) recommend, urge, advocate (push for something) "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day"
• 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)
• similar to
• antonym
• S: (adj) appointed, decreed, ordained, prescribed (fixed or established especially by order or command) "at the time appointed (or the appointed time)"
• similar to
• S: (adj) settled (established or decided beyond dispute or doubt) "with details of the wedding settled she could now sleep at night"
• antonym
• 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"