· issue commands or orders for

Synonym(s): order, dictate

Hypernym(s): inflict, bring_down, visit, impose

· recommend as beneficial; "my mother prescribes a good night's sleep as the cure for all ills"

Hypernym(s): recommend, urge, advocate

· (medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription; "the doctor prescribed steroids for my ear trouble"

Hypernym(s): order, tell, enjoin, say

· set down as a rule or guide

· fixed or established especially by order or command; "at the time appointed (or the appointed time)"

Synonym(s): appointed, decreed, ordained

· conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline; "in prescribed order"

Synonym(s): official

· formally laid down or imposed; "positive laws"

Synonym(s): positive