prescriptionist

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
形容词 adj.
  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.

词形变化

more prescriptionist comparative most prescriptionist superlative prescriptionists plural

词汇关系

近义词
prescriptivist

词源

词源 1
From prescription + -ist.
词源 2
From prescription + -ist.
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