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English Dictionary: prescriptive	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prescriptive adj pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage" Synonym(s): prescriptive, normative Antonym(s): descriptive
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prescriptive \Prescrip"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.