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prescriptive
adj
    1. Authoritative; laying down rules.
      Thesaurus: authoritarian, dictatorial, rigid, didactic, dogmatic, preceptive, prescribing, legislating; Antonym: permissive.
    2. Said of a right, etc: established by custom.
Etymology: 18c.



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