Definitionadj. pertaining to giving directives or rules
Last update: October 6, 2015
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I purchased a book of prescriptive grammar of English. [Please select]
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Reserved categorised people have some prescriptive rights in appointments. [Please select]
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Among the curious customs of Halifax was the Gibbet Law, which was probably established by a prescriptive right to protect the wool trade, and gave the inhabitants the power of executing any one taken within their liberty, who, when tried by a jury of sixteen of the frith-burgesses, was found guilty of the theft of any goods of the value of more than 13d. [Please select]
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That which the curmudgeons called license, and liberty the free, was in 1921 held by charter and by right prescriptive. [Please select]
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What Minister, however able, however popular, could have withstood the wisdom, the irreproachability, the vast prescriptive authority, of the venerable Prince. [Please select]
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Further, out of its dogmas the Church constructs prescriptive symbols, a step which must be deplored. [Please select]
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Arnold Sherman was there before him, and was actually sitting in Ludovic's own prescriptive chair. [Please select]
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Republicans still believed that as saviors of the Union they had a prescriptive right to the government. [Please select]
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