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prescriptive

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pre·scrip·tive  (pr-skrptv)
adj.
1. Sanctioned or authorized by long-standing custom or usage.
2. Making or giving injunctions, directions, laws, or rules.
3. Law Acquired by or based on uninterrupted possession.
4. Linguistics Based on or establishing norms or rules indicating how a language should or should not be used rather than describing the ways in which a language is used.
pre·scriptive·ly adv.
pre·scriptive·ness n.
prescriptive
Adjective
1. laying down rules
2. based on tradition
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.prescriptive - pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"
normative
grammar - the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
descriptive - describing the structure of a language; "descriptive grammar"
prescriptive
adjective dictatorial, rigid, authoritarian, legislating, dogmatic, didactic, preceptive
Translations
prescriptive [prɪˈskrɪptɪv] adj → normativo
prescriptive [prɪˈskrɪptɪv] adj → normatif/ive
prescriptive [prɪˈskrɪptɪv] adj → normativ
prescriptive [prɪˈskrɪptɪv] adj → normativo/a


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If anyone can claim a prescriptive right of interest in the Moonstone, and in everything connected with it, I think it is hardly to be denied that I am the man.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
He had established such a long prescriptive right to this deportment (his son's inheritance from his mother) that I several times knew both Caddy and her husband to be melted to tears by these affectionate self-sacrifices.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
The lines and tufts of green moss, here and there, seemed pledges of familiarity and sisterhood with Nature; as if this human dwelling-place, being of such old date, had established its prescriptive title among primeval oaks and whatever other objects, by virtue of their long continuance, have acquired a gracious right to be.
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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