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Webster 1913 Edition
Prescriptive
Pre-scrip′tive
,Adj.
[L.
praescriptivus
of a demurrer or legal exception.] 1.
(Law)
Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment;
as, a
; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom. prescriptive
right of titleThe right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become
prescriptive
. J. M. Mason.
Webster 1828 Edition
Prescriptive
PRESCRIP'TIVE
,Adj.
The right to be drowsy in protracted toil, has become prescriptive.
1.
Pleading the continuance and authority of custom.Definition 2024
prescriptive
prescriptive
English
Adjective
prescriptive (comparative more prescriptive, superlative most prescriptive)
- Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.
- 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, ISBN 0-521-34750-5, page 8:
- For one thing, spoken language tends to be less subjected to prescriptive
pressures than written language, and hence is a less artificial medium of com-
munication (written language is often a kind of 'censored' version of spoken
language). [...]
- For one thing, spoken language tends to be less subjected to prescriptive
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Synonyms
Antonyms
- descriptive (especially of grammar and usage)
- proscriptive
Derived terms
- prescriptively
- prescriptiveness
- prescriptivism
- prescriptivist
- prescriptivity
- prescriptive ethics
Related terms
Translations
of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard
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