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1. (adj.) prescriptive
that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions.
2. prescriptive
based on or arising from long-standing usage or custom.
3. prescriptive
concerned with or involving the establishment of norms of correct and incorrect language usage or rules based on these norms; normative:
prescriptive grammar.
4. prescriptive
depending on or arising from effective legal prescription, as a right or title established by a long unchallenged tenure.
Etymology: (1740–50)
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1. (adj) prescriptive, normative
pertaining to giving directives or rules
"prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"
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1. (adj) prescriptive
consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom
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