Prescriptive

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Relating to or making rules, laws, or directions.
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. Of or relating to acquisition or occupancy by prescription.
  • adjective. Sanctioned or authorized by long-standing custom or usage.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Arising from established usage or opinion; customary.
  • Specifically, in law, pertaining to, resulting from, or based upon prescription.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; ; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the doctrine that acceptable grammatical rules should be prescribed by authority, rather than be determined by common usage.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. pertaining to giving directives or rules
  • Word Usage
    "But, this does not make the label prescriptive) King Agrippa, a Gentile, uses the term to describe Paul's people and then we have Peter who simply says that if one suffers because of the use of this derogatory name of "Christian" to not be ashamed of it and to glorify God in this."
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