An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
PRESCRIPTIVE
prescriptive, normative
(adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules; “prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
prescriptive (comparative more prescriptive, superlative most prescriptive)
Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.
Synonym: normative
Antonyms: descriptive (especially of grammar and usage), proscriptive, nonprescriptive
Source: Wiktionary
Pre*scrip"tive, a. Etym: [L. praescriptivus of a demurrer or legal exception.] (Law)
Definition: 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. The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become prescriptive. J. M. Mason.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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