different between cliche vs precept
cliche
English
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: kl?-sh?', IPA(key): /kli??e?/
Noun
cliche (plural cliches)
- Alternative form of cliché
Translations
Verb
cliche (third-person singular simple present cliches, present participle clicheing, simple past and past participle cliched)
- Alternative form of cliché
Anagrams
- chicle
French
Verb
cliche
- first-person singular present indicative of clicher
- third-person singular present indicative of clicher
- first-person singular present subjunctive of clicher
- third-person singular present subjunctive of clicher
- second-person singular imperative of clicher
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precept
English
Alternative forms
- præcept (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin praeceptum, form of praecipi? (“to teach”), from Latin prae (“pre-”) + capi? (“take”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?i?s?pt/
Noun
precept (plural precepts)
- A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
- 2006: Theodore Dalrymple, The Gift of Language
- I need hardly point out that Pinker doesn't really believe anything of what he writes, at least if example is stronger evidence of belief than precept.
- 2006: Theodore Dalrymple, The Gift of Language
- (law) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
- (Britain) An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
- A rate or tax set by a precept.
- A rate or tax set by a precept.
Translations
Verb
precept (third-person singular simple present precepts, present participle precepting, simple past and past participle precepted)
- (obsolete) To teach by precepts.
- 1603, Francis Bacon, Valerius Terminus: Of The Interpretation of Nature
- the axioms of sciences are precepted to be made convertible
- 1603, Francis Bacon, Valerius Terminus: Of The Interpretation of Nature
References
- “precept”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- percept
Old Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin praeceptum, form of praecipi? (“to teach”), from prae (“pre-”) + capi? (“take”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?r?e??ept/
Noun
precept f (genitive precepte)
- verbal noun of pridchaid
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10d23
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 21c19
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10d23
Inflection
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “precept”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Romanian
Etymology
From French précepte, from Latin praeceptum.
Noun
precept n (plural precepte)
- precept
Declension
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