pre·scrip·tive
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| 1. | that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father. |
| 2. | depending on or arising from effective legal prescription, as a right or title established by a long unchallenged tenure. |
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adj.
pre·scrip'tive·ly adv., pre·scrip'tive·ness n. |
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| prescriptive | |
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| pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage" [ant: descriptive] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
Main Entry: pre·scrip·tive
Pronunciation: pri-'skrip-tiv
Function: adjective
1 : serving to prescribe <prescriptive rules>
2 : acquired by, founded on, or constituting prescription <a prescriptive right> <a longer prescriptive period>
| Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Prescriptive
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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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