Definition of Prescreptive
Pre*scrip"tive (?), a. [L.
praescriptivus of a demurrer or legal exception.] (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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- prescribing or basing on a norm or standard
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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