Prescriptive Definition

prĭ-skrĭptĭv
adjective
Relating to or making rules, laws, or directions.
Prescriptive pronouncements.
American Heritage
That prescribes.
Webster's New World
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.
American Heritage
Based on legal prescription.
Webster's New World
Prescribed by custom or long use.
Webster's New World
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Prescriptive Sentence Examples

  • Apparently the title was occasionally used, and the use gradually grew into a prescriptive right.

  • A prescriptive market is held on Saturdays; two fairs of like nature have disappeared.

  • Earl Warenne held a weekly market on Saturdays, and fairs on Tuesday in Whitsun-week, the eve and day of St Lawrence, and the eve and day of the Exaltation of the Cross, by prescriptive right.

  • Each of the four points stimulates ideas without being overly prescriptive.

  • The borough is again mentioned in 1487-1488, when John Plecy held six messuages in free burgage of the king as of his borough of Wimborne, but it seems to have been entirely prescriptive, and was never a parliamentary borough.

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Words Starting With

PPRPRE

Words Ending With

EVEIVE

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