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What is the adjective for prescribe?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb prescribe which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

prescriptive
  1. Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Ethical obligations are not about prescriptive rules and regulation nor complying with the law.”
      “Britain's drinking problem is the latest in a list of excuses for prescriptive limitations on society.”
      “Only in the 1680s was any serious attempt made to challenge the prescriptive rights of rural and urban elites to exercise power.”
prescriptionist
  1. (linguistics) Relying on historical precedent rather than current usage (to determine rights or correctness).
prescription
  1. (of a drug, etc.) only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription
prescriptionless
  1. Obtained without a medical prescription.
prescriptable
  1. Alternative form of prescriptible
prescriptivist
  1. Having a tendency to prescribe.
prescriptible
  1. Subject to prescription.
prescribable
  1. Capable of being prescribed.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I think it is a loophole in the law because they are not prescribable products.”
      “There are also questions of what happens when a prescribable app is available only on certain types of phones.”
      “Close cooperation is required here: medicines whose prescription depends upon pharmacogenomics considerations will be prescribable only if a corresponding means of testing is available.”
prescribed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of prescribe
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This meant in practice that, as long as a country was pegging the dollar within the prescribed limits, it would be absolved from the need to intervene in any other exchange market on its territory.”
      “They are directed to report to the Master of Transportation all cases of trains running contrary to the prescribed rules of the road.”
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