Precept
['priːsept] or ['prisɛpt]
Definition
(v. t.) To teach by precepts.
Edited by Colin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Command, injunction, order, mandate, edict, commandment, behest, dictate, decree, law, ordinance, ordination, regulation, canon.[2]. Doctrine, principle, maxim, rule, direction.
Editor: Monica
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rule, maxim, injunction, commandment, doctrine, direction, law, mandate,principle, instruction, command, order
ANT:Suggestion, prompting, instigation, impulse
Inputed by Elisabeth
Definition
n. rule of action: a commandment: principle or maxim: (law) the written warrant of a magistrate: a mandate.—adj. Precep′tial (Shak.) consisting of precepts.—n. Precep′tion (obs.) a precept.—adj. Precep′tive containing or giving precepts: directing in moral conduct: didactic.—n. Precep′tor one who delivers precepts: a teacher: an instructor: the head of a school: the head of a preceptory of Knights Templars:—fem. Precep′tress.—adjs. Preceptō′rial; Precep′tory giving precepts.—n. a religious house or college of the Knights Templars.
Typed by Darla
Examples
- How much of the practice I have just reduced to precept, I owe to Agnes, I will not repeat here. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Example is notoriously more potent than precept. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- My precept is, Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Albeit it was as much against the precepts of his school to wonder, as it was against the doctrines of the Gradgrind College. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The young man inclines his head in acknowledgment of the precepts of experience. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He would hear services intoned before this divinity, and certain precepts, which would be dimly familiar to him, murmured as responses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These names of _virtues_, with their precepts, were, 1. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A single day well spent, and as thy precepts direct, is to be preferred to an eternity of sin. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Typist: Marcus