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adj. Sanctioned or authorized by long-standing custom or usage.

adj. Making or giving injunctions, directions, laws, or rules.

adj. Law Acquired by or based on uninterrupted possession.

adj. 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.

adj. Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.

adj. Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; ; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.

adj. Of or pertaining to the doctrine that acceptable grammatical rules should be prescribed by authority, rather than be determined by common usage.

Arising from established usage or opinion; customary.

Specifically, in law, pertaining to, resulting from, or based upon prescription.

adj. pertaining to giving directives or rules

"But, this does not make the label prescriptive) King Agrippa, a Gentile, uses the term to describe Paul's people and then we have Peter who simply says that if one suffers because of the use of this derogatory name of "Christian" to not be ashamed of it and to glorify God in this."

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prescriptivism    prescription    prescriptivist    prescriptive ethics    prescribe   

prescriptiveness   

customary    normative   

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