noun
- Prescribed guide for conduct or action.
- synonyms: rule
Prescript and Prescriptive
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- (n.) Direction; precept; model prescribed.
- (n.) A medical prescription.
- (a.) Directed; prescribed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
adjective
- Pertaining to giving directives or rules.
- usage: "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"
- synonyms: normative
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(a.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary