English-Thai Dictionary

prescriptive

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRESCRIPTIVE

a.Consisting in or acquired by immemorial use and enjoyment; as a prescriptive right or title. The right to be drowsy in protracted toil, has become prescriptive.
1. Pleading the continuance and authority of custom.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PRESCRIPTIVE

Pre *scrip "tive, a. Etym: [L. praescriptivus of a demurrer or legal exception. ] (Law )

 

Defn: 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.

 

PRESCRIPTIVELY

PRESCRIPTIVELY Pre *scrip "tive *ly, adv.

 

Defn: By prescription.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

prescriptive

pre scrip tive |priˈskriptiv prəˈskrɪptɪv | ▶adjective 1 of or relating to the imposition or enforcement of a rule or method: these guidelines are not intended to be prescriptive. • Linguistics attempting to impose rules of correct usage on the users of a language: a prescriptive grammar book. Often contrasted with descriptive. 2 (of a right, title, or institution ) having become legally established or accepted by long usage or the passage of time: a prescriptive right of way. • archaic established by long-standing custom or usage: his regular score at the bar and his prescriptive corner at the winter's fireside. DERIVATIVES pre scrip tive ly adverb, pre scrip tive ness noun, pre scrip tiv ism |-ˈskriptəˌvizəm |noun, pre scrip tiv ist |-vist |noun & adjective ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from late Latin praescriptivus ‘relating to a legal exception, ’ from praescript- ‘directed in writing, ’ from the verb praescribere (see prescribe ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

prescriptive

pre |scrip ¦tive |prɪˈskrɪptɪv | ▶adjective 1 relating to the imposition or enforcement of a rule or method: these guidelines are not intended to be prescriptive. • Linguistics attempting to impose rules of correct usage on the users of a language: a prescriptive grammar book. Often contrasted with descriptive. 2 (of a right, title, or institution ) having become legally established or accepted by long usage or the passage of time: a prescriptive right of way. • archaic arising from long-standing custom or usage: for her own mother she felt no more than a prescriptive affection. DERIVATIVES prescriptively adverb, prescriptiveness noun, prescriptivism noun, prescriptivist noun & adjective ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from late Latin praescriptivus ‘relating to a legal exception ’, from praescript- ‘directed in writing ’, from the verb praescribere (see prescribe ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

prescriptive

prescriptive adjective their instructions are too prescriptive: dictatorial, narrow, rigid, authoritarian, arbitrary, repressive, dogmatic.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

prescriptive

prescriptive adjective guidelines must avoid being too prescriptive: dictatorial, authoritarian, tyrannical, despotic; arbitrary, oppressive, repressive, coercive; insistent, dogmatic, pontifical; binding, enforceable; limiting, narrow, rigid; informal bossy. ANTONYMS free and easy; optional.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

prescriptive

pre scrip tive /prɪskrɪ́ptɪv /形容詞 ｟かたく ｠1 ｟時に非難して ｠〈人 規則 物が 〉 «…について » 規範的な «about » .2 〘法 〙時効による ; 慣習 [慣例 ]で認められた .～ly 副詞