Prescriptive

a.	1.	(Law) 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. The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become prescriptive. - J. M. Mason.
	2.	Of or pertaining to the doctrine that acceptable grammatical rules should be prescribed by authority, rather than be determined by common usage.

Adj.	1.	prescriptive - giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage" Synonyms: normative Antonyms: descriptive - describing the structure of a language; "descriptive linguistics simply describes language"
	2.	prescriptive - based on or prescribing a norm or standard; "normative grammar" Synonyms: normative

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