I.of or relating to a legal exception or demurrer (post-class.): “praescriptivae quaestiones, Jul. Vict. Art. Rhet. 3, 10: quaestiunculae,” id. ib. 4, 1: “praescripti vum praecedens,” Sulp. Viet. Inst. Or. p. 282. —Adv.: praescriptīvē , with an exception (eccl. Lat.): “occurrere,” Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 1.
praescriptīvus , a, um, adj. praescribo, II. B.,