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prescriptive(dictionary)

prescriptive (iou)



prescriptive adjective. M18.
[Late Latin praescriptivus pertaining to a legal exception or demurrer, from Latin praescript-: see PRESCRIPTION, -IVE.]
That prescribes or directs; giving definite precise directions or instructions. M18.
b. Linguistics. Laying down rules of usage. M20.
c. Philosophy. Having or implying an imperative force. M20.
Law. Of a right, title, etc.: derived from or based on prescription or lapse of time. M18.
Prescribed by long-standing custom or usage. M18.
R. C. Hutchinson For her own mother..she had felt no more than a prescriptive affection. N. Algren The prescriptive rights of master over men.
Anthropology. Pertaining to or designating marriage traditionally considered obligatory between certain people in a tribe or kinship group. M20.
prescriptively adverb L18.
prescriptiveness noun E19.
prescriptivism noun (a) Linguistics the practice or advocacy of prescriptive grammar; (b) Philosophy the theory that evaluative judgements have prescriptive force like to that of imperatives: M20.
prescriptivist noun & adjective (a) noun an adherent of prescriptivism; (b) adjective pertaining to or characteristic of prescriptivism: M20.
prescrip'tivity noun prescriptiveness M20.