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precept
[ pree-sept ]
noun
- a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct.
Synonyms: prescription, instruction, guide, order, directive
- an injunction as to moral conduct; maxim.
- a procedural directive or rule, as for the performance of some technical operation.
- Law.
- a writ or warrant.
- a written order issued pursuant to law, as a sheriff's order for an election.
precept
/ ˈpriːsɛpt /
noun
- a rule or principle for action
- a guide or rule for morals; maxim
- a direction, esp for a technical operation
- law
- a writ or warrant
- a written order to a sheriff to arrange an election, the empanelling of a jury, etc
- (in England) an order to collect money under a rate
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Origin of precept1
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Example Sentences
Ironically, this is the one precept on which liberals and conservatives agree.
You want to advocate for including a precept of Jewish law in civil or criminal law?
Where would a justice be more likely than in Israel to run across an arguable precept.
Many think this a precept of natural law; why not of the Constitution?
Likewise our second precept remained beyond discussion; direct open contact with humanity.
And explicitly, in the same connection are the various observances included in it presented in precept.
The Ten Commandments are of perpetual obligation on all; and so is every moral precept included in them.
A leader of men rather than a tactician or strategist, he played on the enthusiasm of his soldiers by example rather than precept.
Both the positive precept and the statutes of the decalogue unfolded what was designed as a covenant claim.
If he sometimes come across a precept which is perfectly clear and irrefutable, Donald does not scruple to ignore it.
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