About The Word Prescriptive
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Prescriptive
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What's The Definition Of Prescriptive?
[adj] (grammar) giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"
[adj] based on or prescribing a norm or standard; "normative grammar" Synonyms | Synonyms for Prescriptive: normative | received | standard Related Terms | Find terms related to Prescriptive: See Also | Prescriptive In Webster's Dictionary \Pre*scrip"tive\, a. [L. praescriptivus of a
demurrer or legal exception.] (Law)
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.
The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become
prescriptive. --J. M. Mason.
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