单词 | prescriptively |
释义 | prescriptivelyadv. By prescription; by recognized custom. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [adverb] > by prescription prescriptively1756 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [adverb] > by authoritative custom prescriptively1858 1756 Ess. on Times 6 That right had..been left dormant and unexerted, impolitically if you please, but surely not prescriptively in matter of claim against us? 1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 33 The forest lands, in which the Crown has (where they are not granted or prescriptively held) the dominion of the soil, and the vert and venison. 1811 Times 27 Mar. 3/3 Avarice is a vice from which no rank or station in life is prescriptively exempt. 1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. I. 178 We continue to admire pictures prescriptively and by tradition. 1930 Eng. Hist. Rev. 45 537 It was enjoyed prescriptively by all tenants on ancient demesne. 1963 R. M. Hare Freedom & Reason vi. 91 This argument would break down if ‘ought’ were not being used both universalizably and prescriptively. 1995 Sci. & Public Affairs Winter 19/3 Risk evaluation..is the process of deciding or recommending prescriptively what, if anything, should be done about them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1756 |
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