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pre·scrip·tive

 (prĭ-skrĭp′tĭv)
adj.
1.
a. Relating to or making rules, laws, or directions: prescriptive pronouncements.
b. Linguistics 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.
2. Law Of or relating to acquisition or occupancy by prescription.
3. Archaic Sanctioned or authorized by long-standing custom or usage.

pre·scrip′tive·ly adv.
pre·scrip′tive·ness n.
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prescriptive

(prɪˈskrɪptɪv)
adj
1. making or giving directions, rules, or injunctions
2. sanctioned by long-standing usage or custom
3. (Law) derived from or based upon legal prescription: a prescriptive title.
preˈscriptively adv
preˈscriptiveness n
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pre•scrip•tive

(prɪˈskrɪp tɪv)

adj.
1. that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions.
2. based on or arising from long-standing usage or custom.
3. concerned with or involving the establishment of norms of correct and incorrect language usage or rules based on these norms; normative: prescriptive grammar.
4. depending on or arising from effective legal prescription, as a right or title established by a long unchallenged tenure.
[1740–50]
pre•scrip′tive•ly, adv.
pre•scrip′tive•ness, n.
pre•scrip′tiv•ism, n.
pre•scrip′tiv•ist, n., adj.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.prescriptive - pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"
grammar - the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
descriptive - describing the structure of a language; "descriptive grammar"
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prescriptive

adjective dictatorial, rigid, authoritarian, legislating, dogmatic, didactic, preceptive prescriptive attitudes to language on the part of teachers
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Translations

prescriptive

[prɪˈskrɪptɪv] ADJ (Jur) [title] → legal; (= sanctioned by custom) → sancionado por la costumbre (Gram) → normativo
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prescriptive

[prɪˈskrɪptɪv] adjnormatif/ivepre-season preseason [ˌpriːˈsiːzən] modif [training, tournament, match, game, competition] → de présaison
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prescriptive

adjnormativ; to be prescriptiveVorschriften machen
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prescriptive

[prɪˈskrɪptɪv] adjnormativo/a
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In short, to know how it is that we can know and know truly, and so distinguish truth from error at a level of concrete relations, occasions an understanding of the possibility for agency that carries within itself a warrant for its own prescriptiveness.
Indeed, although Lemov and Ball were offered up as contrasting poles of teacher preparation in the popular press (Green, 2010), Lemov's "49 techniques that put students on the path to college" and his claim that "everyone, and especially educators, can improve their performance through relentless and deliberate practice" resonate with Ball and Forzani's (2009) calls for "deliberate and unabashed prescriptiveness" in teacher training (p.
777, 814-16, 814 n.138, 815 nn.143-44 (1985) (providing comprehensive citations to these state provisions and grouping them into four categories based on content and prescriptiveness).
In addition, the reviewer can consider information not included in the test, reducing the tests' prescriptiveness, which could limit the reviewer's ability to identify a breach.
The revised process, documented in the 2012 JCIDS Manual, reduced the CBA's prescriptiveness and significantly cut the document review timelines.
With a similar attitude, Alejandro reinforces the point of expected prescriptiveness with the following comment.
And beyond that, Hill says that the heat map allows UPH leaders to continue to mature the prescriptiveness by which they can make decisions.
Purists may raise an eyebrow at the inclusion of several recipes, including "Nellie Husanara Abdool's pumpkin and shrimp curry", though budding chefs may well find the prescriptiveness useful: "Add curry powder, brown sugar, thyme, salt and pepper.
In the attempt to keep the descriptiveness and prescriptiveness to a minimum one could argue that a CHAT-based coding scheme would always be somewhat prescriptive.
In their volume on monstrosity and childness, Bohlmann and Moreland (somewhat counter-intuitively) resist the prescriptiveness of "childhood" by structuring the sections of their volume according to typical teleological benchmarks associated with coming of age.
By employing the term Fremdplatzierung (placements with strangers), the FZ+F documents avoid the prescriptiveness inherent to terms such as Pflegefamilie (foster family), Pflegekind (foster child), Pflegeplatz (foster care placement), and variations thereof.