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prescriptive [prɪˈskrɪptɪv] adj
1. making or giving directions, rules, or injunctions 2. sanctioned by long-standing usage or custom 3. (Law) derived from or based upon legal prescription a prescriptive title prescriptively adv prescriptiveness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
prescriptive adjective dictatorial, rigid, authoritarian, legislating, dogmatic, didactic, preceptive prescriptive attitudes to language on the part of teachers Translations prescriptive [prɪˈskrɪptɪv] ADJ (Jur) [title] → legal; (= sanctioned by custom) → sancionado por la costumbre (Gram) → normativo prescriptive [prɪˈskrɪptɪv] adj → normatif/ive pre-season preseason [ˌpriːˈsiːzən] modif [training, tournament, match, game, competition] → de présaison prescriptive prescriptive [prɪˈskrɪptɪv] adj → normativo/a prescriptive [prɪˈskrɪptɪv] adj → normativo/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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. 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. |
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