Word Meanings - PRECEPTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A precept. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to PRECEPTION)

• PRECEPTIAL
  Preceptive. would give preceptial medicine to rage. Shak.
• PRECEPTRESS
  A woman who is the principal of a school; a female teacher.
• PRECEPTORY
  Preceptive. "A law preceptory." Anderson .
• PRECEPTOR
  1. One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor. 2. The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars. Sir W. Scott.
• PRECEPTIVE
  Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures. The lesson given us here is preceptive to us. L'Estrange.
• PRECEPT
  A command in writing; a species of writ or process. Burrill. Syn. -- Commandment; injunction; mandate; law; rule; direction; principle; maxim. See Doctrine. (more info) beforehand, to instruct, teach; prae before + capere to take: cf. F. 1. Any
• PRECEPTION
  A precept. Bp. Hall.
• PRECEPTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a preceptor.