1. Set down as a rule or guide 
2. Fixed or established especially by order or command
   - appointed, decreed, ordained 
3. Conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline
   "in prescribed order"
   - official 
4. Formally laid down or imposed
   - positive

1. Issue commands or orders for
   - order, dictate

See also: formal, nonarbitrary, prescription, prescriptive, regular, settled, unarbitrary

Type of: bring down, impose, inflict, obtrude, visit

Encyclopedia: Prescribe

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