PRESCRIP'TIVE, adjective Consisting in or acquired by immemorial use and enjoyment; as a prescriptive right or title.
The right to be drowsy in protracted toil, has become prescriptive
1. Pleading the continuance and authority of custom.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.