1. Adjective
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.
2. Adjective
pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"
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