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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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preceptive
English
Etymology
precept +? -ive
Adjective
preceptive (comparative more preceptive, superlative most preceptive)
- (law) Of, pertaining to, or based on precepts
- 1677: John Owen, The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
- If it was necessary, that Christ as our surety should suffer the penalty of the law in our stead, because we have sinned; then it was also necessary that as our Surety, he should yield obedience to the preceptive part of the law also;
- 1677: John Owen, The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
- instructive; didactic
- 1810: John Quincy Adams, Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory
- It is altogether preceptive, barely containing the rules, without illustration from example. It is a system of rhetoric in the abstract.
- 1810: John Quincy Adams, Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory
Anagrams
- perceptive
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