Sekirov Dictionary

prescriptionist

noun 3
adjective 1
forms 3

noun3

•
One who prescribes.
- The exercise prescriptionist must be aware of these various causes when assessing posture. — 1985
•
One who advocates a prescriptionist approach.
- In a fine essay, Terry Eagleton has argued that rights, for a prescriptionist like Burke, are validated by 'the recounting of a certain narrative'. — 2005
•
A specialist in preparing medications.
- He has served as a prescriptionist to the leading pharmacists of the old country, and been employed in many of our American cities. — 2013

adjective1

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Relying on historical precedent rather than current usage (to determine rights or correctness).
- Much of the disagreement between the prescriptionist and descriptionist views turns on the question of compensation among generations. — 1996

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