a. [ L. praescriptivus of a demurrer or legal exception. ] 1. (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. [ 1913 Webster ]
The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become prescriptive. J. M. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Of or pertaining to the doctrine that acceptable grammatical rules should be prescribed by authority, rather than be determined by common usage. [ PJC ]
(adj) pertaining to giving directives or rules, Syn.normative, Ant.descriptive, Example: prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage
(n) an account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used; a prescription for the `correct' phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics, Ant.descriptive linguistics
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