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prescriptive adjective accepted, acknowledge, accnowledge through possession, acknowledge through use, admitted, binding, commanded by long use, commanding, compulsory, customary, decretal, determined, dictated, fixed, legalized, long-established, longstanding, obligatory, ordained by custom, popular, preceptive, prescribed, recognized, recognized because of continued possession, recognized through use, required by custom, rooted, set, settled, time-honored, traditional, traditive, understood, unwritten, usual, vested, wonted Associated concepts: prescriptive rights See also: compulsory, decretal, formal, legislative, orthodox, rightful, traditional, unalienable How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As one who came of age academically in the 1980s, I have more sympathy with Par ker's and Bevington's openness to the contemporary than with Clayton's dismissiveness and Simonds' prescriptiveness. Unfortunately, it has been reserved for programs that effectively could use case studies or those that were staffed for individualizing testing and prescriptiveness. |
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