"specified this" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to something that has been clearly identified or mentioned before. Here is an example sentence: "According to the contract, the supplier specified this particular model of equipment for the project."
It also specified this should be done in secret.
"My dad beat me with his belt," a poem called "Primogeniture" begins, but since "once" or "daily" is never specified, this could simply be rhetoric.
The legislative report says that the Department of Public Works "specified this manufacturer, its staff state, in compliance with the intention of Cioffi and Peter Ellef, the governor's chief of staff, to the extent we understood them".
Unlike the conciliar definition arrived at in Florence, Pastor aeternus specified this to include the pope's judicial supremacy, insisting that there is "no higher authority," not even an ecumenical council, to which appeal can be made from a papal judgment.
Nearly 4,000 years ago, Hammurabi's code specified this: "If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction firm, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death".
The contract is specified this way because this produces good outcomes.
Rules that specify this are called formation rules.
But then, though the book doesn't specify, this is quintessentially a story of American psychiatry.
(They didn't actually specify this, but it was heavily implied).
The government does not explicitly specify this, although it implies the operation should be time limited.
Equity swaps of this size specifying this form of settlement have to be disclosed to Consob.
