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Webster 1913 Edition
Prescriptive
Pre-scrip′tive
,Adj.
[L.
praescriptivus
of a demurrer or legal exception.] 1.
(Law)
Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment;
as, a
; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom. prescriptive
right of titleThe right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become
prescriptive
. J. M. Mason.
Webster 1828 Edition
Prescriptive
PRESCRIP'TIVE
,Adj.
The right to be drowsy in protracted toil, has become prescriptive.
1.
Pleading the continuance and authority of custom.