Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Prescriptive \Pre*scrip"tive\, a. [L. praescriptivus of a
demurrer or legal exception.]
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.
[1913 Webster]
The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become
prescriptive. --J. M. Mason.
[1913 Webster]
2. Of or pertaining to the doctrine that acceptable
grammatical rules should be prescribed by authority,
rather than be determined by common usage.
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prescriptive
adj 1: pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive
grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct
usage" [syn: {prescriptive}, {normative}] [ant:
{descriptive}]
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
