precept
IPA: prˈisɛpt
noun
- A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
- (law) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
- (UK) 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.
verb
- (intransitive, chiefly US, medicine) To act as a preceptor; to teach a physician-in-training by supervising their clinical practice.
- (transitive, obsolete) To teach (something) by precepts.
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Examples of "precept" in Sentences
- He always follows precepts.
- That is the precept on which the US was founded.
- It is one of the precepts of the Catholic Church.
- Perhaps that is one of the precepts of sociophysics.
- This is the fundamental precept of the Abrahamic religions.
- It is the precept forbidding killing that wields the sword.
- This is commonly known as the second precept of the Church.
- Precept suggests serving the wine iced and at room temperature.
- The first Precept of Buddhism is the respect for all sentient life.
- The novice precepts are the same with the prohibition against handling money.