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
- In ecclesiastical jurisprudence, the word precept is used:
- The precept is very weighty. seemeth to have -- or, "thinketh that he hath" (Margin).
- The precept is quoted from Prov.xxv. 21, 22; so that, high as it seems to be, the Old Testament was not a stranger to it.
- One cannot decide that this Church precept is false this one true, that that one is empty and useless and that one is meaningful.
- Now the precept is directed to heaven and earth, and all the hosts of both, as royal precepts commonly run -- To all officers, civil and military.
- A positive precept is right because it is commanded, and ceases to be obligatory when abrogated; a moral precept is commanded eternally, because it is eternally right.
- The precept is threefold, ask, seek, knock; there is precept upon precept; but the promise is sixfold, line upon line, for our encouragement; because a firm belief of the promise would make us cheerful and constant in our obedience.
- Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary -- This precept is frequently repeated along with the prohibition of idolatrous practices, and here it stands closely connected with the superstitions forbidden in the previous verses.
- The doctor was sent for, who, very sick himself, and holding by the table to keep himself from falling, told her, without looking at her very particularly, that there was nothing the matter, only to keep yourself "quite quiet and still;" and the ship rolling at the same moment, he pitched head-foremost out of the cabin, showing practically how much easier precept is than example.
- And this entitles the precept, _Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself_, to the pre-eminence given to it, and is a justification of the apostle's assertion, that all other commandments are comprehended in it, whatever cautions and restrictions {28} there are, which might require to be considered, if we were to state particularly and at length what is virtue and right behaviour in mankind.
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