1 (formal) telling people what should be done:
prescriptive methods of teaching
2 (linguistics) telling people how a language should be used, rather than describing how it is used:
a prescriptive grammar of English
OPPDESCRIPTIVE
3 (technical) (of rights and institutions) made legal or acceptable because they have existed for a long time:
prescriptive powers
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is prescriptive a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, prescriptive is tagged as adjective.
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