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Prescriptive

Prescriptive Meaning & Definition
Prescriptive Definition And Meaning

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

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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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