based on habit, based on long-standing custom; serving to establish rules, setting laws
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Prescriptive Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Prescriptive Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutConsisting 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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\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. m. mason.
Adjective
1. giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"
(synonym) normative
(antonym) descriptive
(classification) grammar
2. based on or prescribing a norm or standard; "normative grammar"
(synonym) normative
(similar) standard, received
Prescriptive Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
In linguistics, prescription denotes normative practices on such aspects of language use as spelling, grammar, pronunciation, and syntax. It includes judgments on what usages are socially proper and politically correct. Its aims may be to establish a standard language, to teach what is perceived within a particular society to be correct forms of language, or to advise on effective communication. If usage preferences are conservative, prescription might (appear to) be resistant to language change; if the usage preferences are radical, prescription may produce neologisms.
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Prescriptive Definition from Society & Culture Dictionaries & Glossaries
Water rights which are acquired by diverting water and putting it to use in accordance with specified procedures; e.g. filing a request with a state agency to use unused water in a stream, river, or lake.
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Water rights which are acquired by diverting water and putting it to use in accordance with specified procedures; e.g. filing a request with a state agency to use unused water in a stream, river, or lake.
Water rights which are acquired by diverting water and putting it to use in accordance with specified procedures. These procedures include filing a request to use unused water in a strewn, River or lake with a state agency.
