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Rescriptive (gcide) | Rescriptive \Re*scrip"tive\ (-t?v), a.
Pertaining to, or answering the purpose of, a rescript;
hence, deciding; settling; determining.
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prescriptive (encz) | prescriptive,nařizující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
prescriptively (encz) | prescriptively,normativně adv: 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.
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The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become
prescriptive. --J. M. Mason.
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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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Prescriptively (gcide) | Prescriptively \Pre*scrip"tive*ly\, adv.
By prescription.
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Rescriptively (gcide) | Rescriptively \Re*scrip"tive*ly\, adv.
By rescript. --Burke.
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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] |
prescriptive grammar (wn) | prescriptive grammar
n 1: a grammar that is produced by prescriptive linguistics |
prescriptive linguistics (wn) | prescriptive linguistics
n 1: an account of how a language should be used instead of how
it is actually used; a prescription for the `correct'
phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics [ant:
descriptive linguistics] |
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