What's the difference between ordained and prescribed?

Ordained


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Ordain

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here the miracle of the Lohans' baby was divinely ordained and fulfilled the entitlement of every woman to have a child.
  • (2) The protester was later identified as the Rev Paul Williamson, who once tried to charge an earlier archbishop of Canterbury with high treason for ordaining female priests.
  • (3) Cameron replied: “I don’t think they will want to be and I think they will feel pressure and want to do more.” “We should try to encourage them to do it in their own way rather than say there is some pre-ordained route they have to follow.” He said the US had managed to cut its carbon emissions thanks to the “unexpected bonus” of the “shale revolution” – widely known as fracking – which meant it was burning less coal.
  • (4) But Salinger ordained that these works should not be published until 50 years after his death.
  • (5) They leave with basic dry food in carrier bags, but no answer to an economy that ordains lifetimes of pay no family can live on.
  • (6) These observations are consistent with a model whereby RB expression acts as a cellular brake to sustain a developmentally ordained state of differentiation (i.e., preserve the "status quo"); and the down-regulation of heterogeneously distributed RB protein per cell below a threshold is part of the metabolic cascade culminating in terminal cell differentiation.
  • (7) The board ordains other conditions, such as warm clothing, essential for outdoor work.
  • (8) He respects his colleagues who took a different view and says that the discussions over recent days have been some of the best he has been involved in the church since being ordained in 1993.
  • (9) Following the change in the law, church leaders, headed by the archbishops of Canterbury and York, Justin Welby and John Sentamu respectively, decided that clergy must not enter into a same-sex marriage and that those in a gay marriage would not be ordained.
  • (10) AL Kennedy: 'Salmond has the warm potato head of a man who is Scottish and – we hope – no threat' Dundee-born AL Kennedy, 45, is an ordained minister, standup and dramatist, as well as an award-winning fiction writer.
  • (11) He did not believe the United States was safe.” Doggart’s defense attorneys said their client is an ordained minister with the Christian National Church, has numerous degrees and certificates and is a veteran.
  • (12) This, conflated with a kind of turbo-Darwinism, made eugenics a common feature of the national debate, and it was not at all unusual for judges and politicians and other notables to wish, out loud, like Leslie Scott, the solicitor general, that "by a stroke of the pen it could be ordained that from today onwards no mental defective should be allowed to breed".
  • (13) The number of bishops in the Holy Synod increased from 20 to 83; four bishops were ordained in Britain, where 30,000 Egyptian Copts live.
  • (14) King was ordained, did a doctoral degree at Boston University, and then in 1955 became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, an upper-income Negro church in Montgomery, Alabama.
  • (15) Leonard once used the law of trespass to prevent 100 men and women accepting the ministration of a female priest ordained abroad.
  • (16) Labour's Criminal Justice Act in 2003 ordained longer sentences, while asbos and other licences led to more people being jailed for breaching them.
  • (17) The Dude even made it into the top 10 of Empire’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time and a religion promoting his life philosophy, Dudeism, has over 250,000 ordained priests.
  • (18) They take vows of poverty and chastity, but they are not ordained, which is why they have no power," said Kenneth Briggs, author of Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church's Betrayal of American Nuns .
  • (19) Mackie plays Harry Mitchell, an agent tasked with keeping Damon to his ordained "plan" and away from love interest Emily Blunt.
  • (20) I would ... attach importance to the fact that Father Baldwin had been appointed by his bishop as parish priest: that is not simply to be equated with his status as ordained priest."

Prescribed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Prescribe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among them, the coumarins, rutins, Centella asiatica extracts, procyanoside oligomers are the most prescribed.
  • (2) However, a recrudescence in both psychotic and depressive symptoms developed as plasma desipramine levels rose 4 times higher than anticipated from the oral doses prescribed.
  • (3) Regulators concerned about physician behavior and confronted by demands of nonphysicians to prescribe controlled substances may find EDT a good solution.
  • (4) Patients were also rated with regard to their pulmonary function and clinical status, including medication prescribed.
  • (5) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
  • (6) The Hindu belief system accommodates this by prescribing use in such a way that this effect becomes beneficial.
  • (7) Auranofin (AF), D-penicillamine (D-pen) and thiola are prescribed as disease-modifying drugs in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
  • (8) The rationale for the use of exercise as part of the treatment program in type II diabetes is much clearer and regular exercise may be prescribed as an adjunct to caloric restriction for weight reduction and as a means of improving insulin sensitivity in the obese, insulin-resistant individual.
  • (9) An analysis of drug prescribing over six months in a random sample of 146 elderly patients showed that 42% were receiving one or more medicines long term.
  • (10) Although there is no direct evidence that favorable lipoprotein changes produced by OCs are cardioprotective, the physician prescribing an OC should minimize adverse lipoprotein effects by prescribing a balanced low-dose, low-impact formulation.
  • (11) These 2 information sources were compared to obtain agreement rates between prescriber- and patient-reported OC histories.
  • (12) To prevent possible relapses, an oral maintenance regimen of amoxicillin and clavulanic acid was prescribed for a period of three months.
  • (13) In contrast, none of 16 women who had reached menopause and only two of 21 men required oral absorption of dietary or prescribed iron for the amount of blood iron donated.
  • (14) A variety of commonly prescribed drugs can produce a positive direct antiglobulin test, but the incidence of actual drug-induced hemolytic anemia is low.
  • (15) The level of prescribing of opioid painkillers – Percocet in Geni’s case – has soared, and with it the incidence of addiction, and addiction’s grim best friend: fatal overdoses.
  • (16) If you must take a suitcase, don't exceed the prescribed dimensions or weight limits.
  • (17) In addition, eight patient questionnaires were used to assess prescribing habits regarding benzodiazepines.
  • (18) Primary care physicians frequently prescribe antidepressant medications to their patients.
  • (19) The prescribing of antidepressants by general practitioners might be expected to reflect the incidence of depression in the community.
  • (20) For a long time the results were disappointing, and in a randomized study none of the therapeutic regimens prescribed could improve the patients' survival.

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