Prescriptionist
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 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'."
- 2 A specialist in preparing medications.
"The practical prescriptionist is an expert at compatibility, for his daily work brings him continually face to face with the problems of compatibility and incompatibility; and he usually knows more Meteria Medica (not Therapeutics) than all the physicians in his town."
- 3 One who prescribes.
"In North Carolina, as throughout the Southern Region, all timber management prescriptions are prepared by a certified compartment prescriptionist, a forester, who has completed formal training and has demonstrated proficiency in on-the-job application of standard silvicultural practices."
- 1 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."
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Etymology
From prescription + -ist.
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