prescriptive

IPA: prʌskrˈɪptɪv

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

Examples of "prescriptive" in Sentences

Burke would go to war for the idea of prescriptive right; Pitt declined to fight for the
What is at the heart of the discussion here is known as a prescriptive easement, a form of adverse possession.
First, it is prescriptive, which is to say that moral judgments express the will in a way analogous to commands.
The grammar books you're used to are what linguists call prescriptive: that is, they prescribe rules for proper usage.
In the medieval trivium, however, grammar did not include the study of morphology and syntax; it was what would now be called prescriptive grammar.
So long as writers have a basic competence in English, prescriptive grammar is largely a distraction that keeps them from focusing on the needs of their work.
It's all rubbish, but in any environment where authority goes hand in hand with level of engagement - the best critters are the ones that crit the most - anything prescriptive is going to be suspect.
"We've tried to be non-prescriptive, which is to say, look, here's the timeline, here's the decision points you will face, here are the choices that you will face," without recommending policy choices, he said.
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.