Crossword-Solution: PRESCRIPTIVE 12 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

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Prescriptive a. Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or
long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title;
pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.

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customised 2 answers
PRESCRIBING 2 answers
regulatory 24 answers
vested 32 answers
authoritarian 36 answers
dogmatic 52 answers
Narrow 68 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRESCRIPTIVE (5)

Woman’s prescriptive infirmity had stalked into the sunlight, which had invested it with the freshness of an originality.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
WEIBEL also made the point that the AAP tag sets, while not excessively prescriptive, offer a common starting point; they do not define the structure of the documents, though.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
The farmers have the prescriptive right of that, so we have to look to you to keep your fence in repair.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
And then, as brave men are entitled, by prescriptive right as old as the world’s history, to the alliance and the active help of Fortune, the punctual goddess stepped down from the machine.
Prince Otto Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
She had walked between three and four miles when that prescriptive comfort and relief to wanderers in woods—a distant light—broke at last upon her searching eyes.
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1996

Quotes with PRESCRIPTIVE (3)

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence. A kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. You feel it already in the vegetable kingdom: from the great catalpa to the humblest herb, how many plants die and how many are killed; but, from the moment you enter the animal kingdom, this law is suddenly i…
Joseph de Maistre
To those who in their turn selectively handle Mormon history and discourage our probing it in a number of areas, one needs to say (or at least to ask): Haven’t we been, if anything, overly cautious, overly mistrustful, overly condescending to a membership and a public who are far more perceptive and discerning than we often give them credit for? Haven’t we, in our care not to offend a soul or cause anyone the least misunderstanding, too much deprived such individuals of needf…
Thomas F. Rogers Let Your Hearts and Minds Expand: Reflections on Faith, Reason, Charity, and Beauty
we may experience an absolute positive change and do the undone if we shift our thoughts from descriptive thinking to prescriptive thinking
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah