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prescriptive
(encz) | prescriptive,nařizující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Prescriptive
(gcide) | Prescriptive \Pre*scrip"tive\, a. [L. praescriptivus of a
demurrer or legal exception.]
1. (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.
[1913 Webster]
The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become
prescriptive. --J. M. Mason.
[1913 Webster]
2. Of or pertaining to the doctrine that acceptable
grammatical rules should be prescribed by authority,
rather than be determined by common usage.
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prescriptive
(wn) | prescriptive
adj 1: pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive
grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct
usage" [syn: prescriptive, normative] [ant:
descriptive] |
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